John Shelton Reed Quotes

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a glad-handing, country-club yuppie Southerner. The problem is we don't have labels for middle-class Southerners.

John Shelton Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sociologist
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  • Birth: 1942

Topics

SmartPeopleThinkProblemKind

I've made a life and career as a professional musician.

Melissa Auf der Maur

LifeCareerProfessionalMade

He who refuses to stoop, who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure - who walks the highway of the right, and in disaster stands erect, is the only victor.

Robert Green Ingersoll

SuccessFailureFearRightDisaster

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Michael A. Stackpole

WorkOwnWhichPublishersAuthors

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

LifeReadingShortQuietBeingNone

David and Dad didn't get along too well growing up. I mean we all got along, but it was harder on David, because David wasn't going to be the son that Dad wanted. But now they're like best friends.

Amy Sedaris

SonBestGrowing UpFriendsGrowing

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Tom Hanks

ReadingLegalFeelYouSeeingKnow

We got extremely lucky. It's a tough business to work with.

Lloyd Banks

WorkBusinessToughLuckyGot

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

Jason Gann

LoveCreativePeopleLaughLongYou

In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.

Claire Messud

HopeWorldYouLoseThingsUs

The world is still a fantastic and wondrous place to live.

Seal

LiveWorldPlaceStillFantastic

Oprah's stock in trade has always been her powerful unmediated connection. She could feel your pain and empower you to talk about it.

Tina Brown

PainFeelYouConnectionPowerful

I was born in Paris, and my mother was a French teacher, but then I rebelled against my upbringing and studied Spanish in school. So now I just speak bad French and bad Spanish.

Lydia Leonard

MotherTeacherSchoolSpeakBadNow

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