A Quote by Fred Reed

When someone tells me that 'the Almighty told me to do this', I want to see the transcript.

Fred Reed

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Fred Reed
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Born: 1945

If someone comes and tells me I've done great work, that's not what I want to hear. But if someone comes and tells me that this could have been a notch better, I'd spend an hour with the person and hear him or her out.

Angad Bedi

No one controlled Frank Sinatra or told him how to sing. No secret group of managers has been telling someone like Jay-Z what to do or how to look. And no one tells me what to do except me and the people who believe in me.

Andrew W.K.

Someone once told me to believe 5 percent of what everybody tells you.

Mia Wasikowska

If someone taps me on the shoulder and tells me they don't want me to open the batting for England, it's going to hurt.

Alastair Cook

I never knew there were this many stars." "I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you." "That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him. "It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain." "I see.

Ally Carter

As soon as someone I don’t respect tells me I can’t do something, it just makes me want to do it even more.

Kenneth Branagh

Every fan interaction I have when someone tells me they can look to their television screens and see themselves reflected in me is a dream come true.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Nobody told me there was any idea for a sequel to 'The Exorcist.' But my agent called me to tell me they were going to do it, and there was a part for me. I said, 'But I died in the first film.' 'Well,' he told me, 'this is from the early days of Father Merrin's life.' I told him I just didn't want to do it again.

Max von Sydow

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

Mike Piazza

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

Vincent Bugliosi

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

Gia Coppola

It's very important to me that people get to see themselves in stories. When someone tells me they've never seen themselves, I have a new goal.

Seanan McGuire

A coach is someone who tells you what you don't want to hear, who has you see what you don't want to see, so you can be who you have always known you could be

Tom Landry

I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'

Bette Midler

Anytime someone tells me that I can't do something, I want to do it more.

Taylor Swift

Photographers usually want to photograph facts and things. But I'm interested in the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of someone sleeping tells me nothing about their dream state; a photograph of a corpse tells me nothing about the nature of death. My work is about my life as an event, and I find myself to be very temporal, transient.

Duane Michals

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