Vernon Reid (Vernon Alphonsus Reid) Quotes
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.
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Have a little faith. Don't give up.
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I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.
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I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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It's interesting, the things you learn when you're 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if you're not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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I'm not even allowed to sing in the shower at home. Too loud.
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I like radio because you can do an hour-long interview and then three days later have a finished piece.
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I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
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Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
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I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.
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If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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It's really wonderful to come to work and have each episode be different, in a way. They have similar structure sometimes with the villain, but we can go in any direction we want. If we want to do an episode set in the circus, we can do that. You know how precious that is. That doesn't come around a lot.
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Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this - just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?
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I say the whole earth and all the stars in the sky are for religion’s sake.
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Guitar can take you far; from Brooklyn To The Sky...!
