Ed Reed Quotes

When people ask me what my motivation is, I have a simple answer: money.

Don’t get hung up on the female thing. The art is not about that.

I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

If you make a 'Star Wars' reference, everybody's familiar with that. It's a common reference that most people can relate to - 'Bartleby, The Scrivener,' probably not so much.

Contrary to popular belief, there are lots of actions on the part of Jefferson and Hemings that "speak" about the basic nature of their relationship.

I loved rollerskating when I was younger.

The time has now come to amend the Constitution to restore freedom of speech for America's people of faith.

Robert E. Lee Prewitt. Isn't that a silly old name.

Evolution writ large is the belief that a cloud of hydrogen will spontaneously invent extreme-ultraviolet lithography, perform Swan Lake, and write all the books in the British Museum.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it.

High energy does not necessarily mean fast, high energy has to do with heart.

From my perspective, we as a nation need to make policy a priority and drive the politics as a result of good policy.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

A community is a small group working together. Community scales by adding groups, and building connections between them, not enlarging them.

To improve as a player you need to not only know how you plan to win, but ... how might your opponent disrupt your plan.

In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory.

To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

Once I realized that the only thing I can actually control in this life is my own mind, how I choose to react, feel, and perceive, I felt immediately liberated.

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

If I ever find myself overwhelmed, it's only because I am overwhelmed by how much more I want to learn. That is what drives me.

I think the greatest lesson I have just recently learned is how powerful the mind is, informing our decision making unknowingly.

I think it's time we take a step back and recognize that while we are hurting our animals, we are hurting each other, and we are hurting our planet.

I think we learn some of the greatest lessons in life from animals, whether it's love, suffering, or the value of silence.

My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the right one yet.

I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?

I'd harbored hopes that the intelligence that once inhabited novels or films would ingest rock. I was, perhaps, wrong.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.

I don't really think about what the subject of my next album will be. I just know that I'm going to make another album.

There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.

When I got to the first tee on the first day, to hear the cheers, it was like all the oxygen got sucked out. It was hard to pull the club back.

When I saw that combination of grace and power, the fast and the soft, the yin and the yang, that's what I'd been looking for.

With Master Ren, if I'd tell him I can't do that and he'd say, yes you can, and it turns out I very much can do it.

You're a musician: You play. That's what you do.

I'm writing about real things. Real people. Real characters. You have to believe what I write about is true or you wouldn't pay any attention at all.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed.

It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.

You won't see my parents honored on any stamps.

I don't mind a repetitive chorus; I mind repetitive verse. I mean, it's the same amount of space. Why would you have only three diamonds if you can have six?

There are times when product is more important than people and sometimes the people are more important than the product.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, thats what you expect to gain.