Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes
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If you come every day or every month to my studio, you won't see that much change, but if you come once a year, you'll see big new categories opened up.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.
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I jokingly say if there was one great thing about, you know, the Lebanese Civil War was that it forced me to read.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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You bird-brained baby. I ain't called anybody baby since Birdman; unless you're a swallow.
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People have the right to say whatever they want.
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I've been in love with Washington ever since renting my very first apartment there many years ago while working as a Senate intern.
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The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.
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Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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I have a really big mouth, I have a lot of opinions and I will be heard.
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In a pinch, when my leather shoes need a quick shine, I take the inside of a banana peel and rub it on the leather like I would a shoe wax. Then I spit-shine it and buff it with a cloth, and my shoes look great.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
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Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
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My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.
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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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In Africa, music is not an art form as much as it is a means of communication.
