Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes
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When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.
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There is resistance to change. There's a resistance to ideas.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.
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I think pop music is a great place to get new ideas across.
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The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.
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Even in large corporations, smaller ideas may not get enough resources.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change.
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I have a flood of ideas in my mind. I just follow my vision.
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The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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The half hour between waking and rising has all my life proved propitious to any task which was exercising my invention... It was always when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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I love sending stuff to Usher because it always sounds better than me.
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I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.
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One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.
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I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
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Mannerism is when you think you have all these great ideas, and none of them are good at the end of the day. But while you are pursuing those other things subconsciously happen.
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If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.
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As Dorothy J. Heydt famously said, the eight deadliest words for any work of fiction are 'I don't care what happens to these people.
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I think that a lot of guys reach for electronics first, but the truth is that you can never keep up with electronics. You buy a flat-screen TV, and then six months later, there's one that has 3D and Blu-ray and all this business, and that is just going to keep continuing.
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I don't drink. I don't do drugs. I'm innocent!
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Fiction has always evoked pictures and provoked ideas and sounds in my mind.
