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Jerry Reed Quotes

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 20, 1937 - September 1, 2008

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Kid Stage Up Used Show Get

I always try to tell a good story, one with a compelling plot that will keep the pages turning. That is my first and primary goal. Sometimes I can tackle an issue-homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty-and wrap a good story around it.

Good Death Story Insurance Goal Try

Rituals are how we step into our private field of dreams, a small Elysium all our own. Rituals are made not just for us, but for those we want to pass them on to.

Dreams Step Small Want Own Us

I am a political junkie. During a presidential campaign, I will often buy a couple of newspapers a day just to keep up.

Day I Am Political Will Up Buy

I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience.

Great Experience Writing Know Actor

We've taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.

Health Care Help I Can Three Way

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

Technology Horror More Explore See

Back when I first came up with the Twins as a second baseman, Billy worked with me on my fielding, on playing the game, on being heads-up, hustling, always doing my best, not alibiing. And when he was the Twins' manager, I enjoyed playing for him.

Best Me Game Doing Back Manager

Poets, I think, are born. You can't teach it. It's genetic - the circumstances of how you were raised... and there's probably some Irish in your blood lines.

Think You Born Blood Circumstances

I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.

Small Aesthetic Kind Write Years

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Love Truth Triumph Endure Only

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Black Political White Three Become

I tend to write longer narrative pieces after I've finished writing a novel - when the fiction's finished and put away, and I have a chance to take all the ideas that are buried inside of my novels and work with them directly.

Work Ideas Writing Chance Write

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