Reese Witherspoon quote: "I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy."

I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.
REESE WITHERSPOON

Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy manag...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I feel very blessed to have two wonderful, healthy children who keep me completely grounded, sane an...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I think women are natural caretakers. They take care of everybody. They take care of their husbands ...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my p...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for he...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Well I always wanted to be Dolly Parton when I was a little girl. I was obsessed with her.
REESE WITHERSPOON

Everybody needs love. Everyone deserves it.
REESE WITHERSPOON

You don't realize this when you're giving birth but you instantly know it when you assess your life,
REESE WITHERSPOON

Hey, don't put that glass on the table without a coaster. Haven't I taught you better?
REESE WITHERSPOON

I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman...
REESE WITHERSPOON

When he had a scene, we would stand like a set away and watch, and we were just cracking up. He woul...
REESE WITHERSPOON

To play June, I had an immediate connect with her background and culture. We grew up with the same r...
REESE WITHERSPOON

For our first date, I made Ryan Hamburger Helper, which is basically what I grew up on. I make my ow...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Just Like Heaven,
REESE WITHERSPOON

This one just had a really nice spiritual message about how important it is to nurture yourself. I t...
REESE WITHERSPOON

A Walk to Remember.
REESE WITHERSPOON

It did not become an issue until he ... became aggressive, frightening members of the party.
REESE WITHERSPOON

I was having a lot of fun, but I'm having even more fun now.
REESE WITHERSPOON

I'm just happy Ryan could come home.
REESE WITHERSPOON

battering and endangering a child to get a picture for their magazines is criminal and not business ...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I'm having a great time playing Becky, ... She's a world away from Elle Woods and for me it's a grea...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I talked to several of her children and they were so encouraging and supportive. I just hope I've do...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Everything I sang sounded awful. So I went outside and I screamed. Everyone pretty much agreed it wa...
REESE WITHERSPOON

They had authentic country roots. But I think they believe they were put on this earth to be togethe...
REESE WITHERSPOON

A lot of work. A lot of vocal coaching, a lot of instrument training.
REESE WITHERSPOON

I really like the idea that Mark appeals to so many people because he just is who he is. He's not po...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I think women are natural caretakers, ... They take care of everybody. They take care of their husba...
REESE WITHERSPOON

[And his leading lady echoes that observation.] American men don't want to do comedy that makes them...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've ex...
REESE WITHERSPOON

It also contains a nice spiritual message about how important it is to nurture yourself. Women are g...
REESE WITHERSPOON

[Unlike Carter Cash, who was drafted into the family business at a young age, Ms. Witherspoon was a ...
REESE WITHERSPOON

June Carter had a long heritage of just being the spokesperson for country music and the face of cou...
REESE WITHERSPOON

And I liked all that debate and mock trial stuff in high school. It's important to know how to make ...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Sometimes I just really can't shake the feeling that I am really just a little girl from Tennessee.
REESE WITHERSPOON

So then I said, 'I don't think I'm very good. I would really prefer if we just had somebody else do ...
REESE WITHERSPOON

No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best,
REESE WITHERSPOON

Oh, my goodness I never thought I'd be here in my whole life growing up in Tennessee.
REESE WITHERSPOON

Creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, 'I'm stupid, isn't it cute?' makes me want to thro...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I loved the beginning where we get to fight like cats and dogs. We had so much fun doing that! Well,...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I am very excited. It feels very good.
REESE WITHERSPOON

Oh my goodness, I never thought I'd ever be here in my whole life. I'm just trying to matter and liv...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you...
REESE WITHERSPOON

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anyt...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions...
REESE WITHERSPOON

awful... I was sure they were going to have LeAnn Rimes sing my part.
REESE WITHERSPOON

Realizing you're not anything special to the kids is always a great sort of reminder that you...
REESE WITHERSPOON

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest ac...
REESE WITHERSPOON

When a police officer tells you to stay in the car, you stay in the car.
REESE WITHERSPOON

I had someone correct my grammar once on a blind date, and within the first 10 minutes the date was ...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stress...
REESE WITHERSPOON

I take the kids to church and Sunday school. They love it. I really think it's important for a c...
REESE WITHERSPOON

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
WITHERSPOON

I'm feeling much better. I have a lot of people praying for me, and I have faith.
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

I tried to stay on top of it. He was a challenge there. He's always been very smart -- not because o...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

You would not be able to find one person in this family that didn't think that they could beat anybo...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

This is just another valley. We're going to have mountaintops again.
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

For a kid to see a friend [Collins] experience something like that, when you hear the same term, you...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

He has good days and bad days. Sometimes he gets insecure about it because I have days when I don't ...
CAROLYN WITHERSPOON

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
JOHN WITHERSPOON

When you're this far away, winning makes up a lot. Winning makes homesickness not that bad.
SHAWN WITHERSPOON

The people in general ought to have regard to the moral character of those whom they invest with aut...
JOHN WITHERSPOON

I was surprised to win MVP. I'm a defensive guy who takes care of the dirty work. I don't even come ...
BEN WITHERSPOON

We're never nervous at halftime. We know someone will step up, either a starter or off the bench. We...
BEN WITHERSPOON

We're a choir that is not limited to one genre of music. Even though we are a predominately black ch...
ANTONIO WITHERSPOON

I had to do a history project with a friend who was in the choir and we decided to meet up in the mu...
ANTONIO WITHERSPOON

When we met as a team he wanted to know what was on our minds. He realizes we have a great program a...
SHAWN WITHERSPOON

We believe there are niches for high-end, glossy magazines that nobody else is doing now, and these ...
JON WITHERSPOON

Our goal is to give people incentives to save for college.
JOHN WITHERSPOON

If I couldn't stand Skylab, ... I definitely couldn't stand the sight of people jumping out of windo...
JOHN WITHERSPOON

terrorism and anthrax and monkey pox and a pox on everybody's houses. So no thank you.
JOHN WITHERSPOON

We're missing some opportunities if we don't try to cast our net a little wider.
JON WITHERSPOON

Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease
JOHN WITHERSPOON

Those who wish well to the State ought to choose to places of trust men of inward principle, justifi...
JOHN WITHERSPOON

I think it's 160,
JOHN WITHERSPOON

If anything, more people should know about it and appreciate it.
JOHN WITHERSPOON

We try to get in their shorts on defense. Whoever we're playing, it doesn't matter who it is. We jus...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON

It feels good to be one of the players who helped get all of this started at Metro. When I come back...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON

I felt like I had to do it. We really wanted this bad and the girls who were with us last year reall...
LAUREN WITHERSPOON

If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.
CHARLEY REESE

Shoes are the finishing touch on any outfit and it is important to complete a look with the perfect ...
TRACY REESE

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been ...
CHARLEY REESE

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the m...
CHARLEY REESE

I have the background singers of Ray Charles, the background singers of Smokey Robinson, and the bac...
DELLA REESE

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high ta...
CHARLEY REESE

Big food companies flatter us by telling us how busy we are and they simultaneously convince us that...
JENNIFER REESE

We kind of took a chance, but we knew they were coming up real hard when we kind of ran our short ro...
ADRIAN REESE

I hope it gives me a little bit of an advantage so I can rebound. What I love to do is rebound, so i...
ADRIAN REESE

Books bring alluring colors to our mundane black and white world.
CALEB REESE

The Venetian is fully staffed and fully functional.
RON REESE

It's a very important time of year for us.
RON REESE

We'd advise that people plan on being here a little bit early. Expect traffic delays and increased s...
RON REESE

I don't have to take insulin because I have been able to make these changes and take this medica...
DELLA REESE

They're going to stomp on our logo.
IKE REESE

We've had a premise and a game plan for that set aside all along in our plans -- a Plan A, Plan B, P...
FLOYD REESE

We'll probably revisit all elementary attendance lines because we'll have to talk about the impact o...
BARRY REESE

We're trying to stay on the leading edge of the growth, but it's challenging.
BARRY REESE

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the str...
DELLA REESE

I'm just glad they're able to use my blood, and I'm helping someone else through the donation and he...
MICHAEL REESE

We need to be doing text messaging on cell phones, we need to be doing online counseling in chat roo...
REESE BUTLER

The increase in sales is still not proportional to the increase in inventory which, consequently, me...
CHRIS REESE

The receivers are maybe a little bit shy at the top, but maybe thicker and more plentiful in the sec...
FLOYD REESE

She's aware that schools will be choosing, so she might lean toward work that will look good at a sc...
BETTY REESE

I'm doing a ballerina, which plays up the cultural aspect of the area.
BETTY REESE

If you think you're too small to be effective, you've never been in bed with a mosquito.
BETTY REESE

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
BETTY REESE

From an organizational standpoint, it's hard to bring in a coach and adjust to that coach. An organi...
FLOYD REESE

I know one thing - it's cheaper to make Joan of Arcadia.
DELLA REESE

You touch the curb and try not to get too much wheel spin off of there in second gear. It feels like...
LEIGHTON REESE

The exercise I do now is a mammoth change for me because I never did any exercise ever.
DELLA REESE

We might have a script planned for next week and then something important might happen, and we addre...
DELLA REESE

I have been a Christian all my life, but it's impossible to be so deeply involved in these stories w...
DELLA REESE

My mother was a personal friend of God's. They had ongoing conversations.
DELLA REESE

If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that y...
DELLA REESE

I have a children's book already out and my autobiography.
DELLA REESE

It's very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It see...
DELLA REESE

We don't have scripts planned that we intend to do - that keeps it fresh.
DELLA REESE

If there was any wrongdoing, the buck stops with me.
BLANE REESE

You see, I was born in the slums, that was before the ghetto. The ghetto was kind of refined; the sl...
DELLA REESE

If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
BETTY REESE

The politicians in this world... have at their command weapons of mass destruction far more complex ...
CHARLEY REESE

Everything was almost the opposite (of the first game). I couldn't think of any positives to say in ...
JIM REESE

A statement necklace glams up any outfit without feeling like too much.
TRACY REESE

If he can't find something that suits him, he may be back. So again, we have not severed that relati...
FLOYD REESE

What happens is in camp you can go five days and get in eight or nine practices, ... During the regu...
FLOYD REESE

You see turn one. You want to have a tidy exit on that because it sets you up for the next turn.
LEIGHTON REESE

I think I'll really learn something at camp.
ZAYVEN REESE

The audience doesn't want boring stories. They want people up on stage to wow them.
ZAYVEN REESE

We have taken a different tack.
GAIL REESE

CAC slow-walked us. CAC didn't give us the back-end money when they said they would.
BLANE REESE

The money was gone and it was tough to operate.
BLANE REESE

You can hear the wind blow but you cant see it.
LAURA REESE

I was a little nervous. I had butterflies in my stomach.
ZAYVEN REESE

No disrespect to you, Mr. President -- I am privileged to be here with you tonight. But I really cam...
DELLA REESE

We... are not really free if we can't control our own government and its policies. And we will never...
CHARLEY REESE

The universal franchise is a bad idea. The notion that the destiny of the nation should be put in th...
CHARLEY REESE

This is turn 8 and 9, you want to take them in one big arc.
LEIGHTON REESE

You bring it over and hold it tight and take 5 and 6 together in one big arc.
LEIGHTON REESE

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
DELLA REESE

It's kind of a sad place. It's just such a zoo that you almost can't get anything done. There's alwa...
FLOYD REESE

This is turn one and you want to keep the car tidy out of the turn and take it out to about here. It...
LEIGHTON REESE

Two great attributes for a coach are: one, to be able to teach everybody on the squad, and two, to g...
FLOYD REESE

We're very pleased to have Kyle here for the next several years. Last season he exemplified himself ...
FLOYD REESE

It took Donovan McNabb four or five years to really flourish,
IKE REESE

The prices are up because no one has wheat.
JIM REESE

It doesn't mean that we hit on 100 percent, that doesn't mean that every guy that enters the locker ...
FLOYD REESE

I think the same regime ought to apply. It will take an act of Congress for this to happen.
BRUCE REESE

Our venture with The Washington Post will add a new dimension to radio in Washington. It will be sma...
BRUCE REESE

These changes will help us meet the growing needs of the Washington community for news, sports, info...
BRUCE REESE

My idea of forgiveness is letting go of resentment that does not serve your better interest, ridding...
DELLA REESE

It was a great effort in his first Big 12 Championships. We did some things well but this is another...
EDDIE REESE

The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you hav...
EDDIE REESE

Swimming and track are similar because you don't have to win along the way to win it all. I use meet...
EDDIE REESE

All coaches have theories on where their teams are supposed to be, and we were as good as I could ha...
EDDIE REESE

When I came here, Texas had the greatest facility in the world at the time. What also attracted me t...
EDDIE REESE

I don't believe in the philosophy that if you knock a champion down, then they get back up. You have...
EDDIE REESE

Even though I didn't know I was going to be a swim coach, I always acted like it. I was always coach...
EDDIE REESE

Last year it was on me. With the excitement from the Olympics, I had them burned out by November. Th...
EDDIE REESE

It wasn't our best season. We especially didn't perform our best at the NCAA Championships.
EDDIE REESE

This is the type of meet that demands people to work at different events and show they can succeed. ...
EDDIE REESE

It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'
REESE HOFFA

Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it th...
DELLA REESE

I wouldn't be surprised if (Edwards), a veteran guy, gets gobbled up at some point,
FLOYD REESE

Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time a...
DELLA REESE

Touching people is very rewarding to me.
DELLA REESE

We never heard from him, ... I had to be a P.I. (private investigator) and actually run him down. I ...
DAVID REESE

I have to give the credit to our pass coverage on that play. I'd have to say that was a coverage sac...
DAVID REESE

Wander down to that end of the dial and listen a little. It is fun to tune in when we play a wide va...
DAVID REESE

If there is a regret, it's that we didn't win the world championship,
FLOYD REESE

Now, our team is talented but very young. We lost a number of really good players and it takes time ...
FLOYD REESE

We were still good enough that we decided let's give it another shot. But we got to this year and sa...
FLOYD REESE

We didn't get the only thing that matters, the ring, but we won some games. The whole time we knew w...
FLOYD REESE

We pushed the envelope for a number of years there, trying to win as many games as we could. And we ...
FLOYD REESE

So a guy like that, I think I would be surprised if he didn't end up banging around a few years with...
FLOYD REESE

He may round out into a player and end up playing for 10 years, and that could make us look pretty d...
FLOYD REESE

I was ready to commit suicide. Then the next thing I know, I'm dancing on the table.
FLOYD REESE

I think all things being equal - speed, size, strength - you're always going to lean toward those pl...
FLOYD REESE

The kids who have weapons in the community - we want to have an appropriate response. We want them t...
FRITZ REESE

One concern has been liability even in a constrained area.
FRITZ REESE

This isn't necessarily a windfall.
GAIL REESE

It's a relatively small amount of the budget as total.
GAIL REESE

What we have found is, and what we're hearing from the public is, it's a marvelous facility for comm...
GAIL REESE

I don't think they'll sit together, though. That's a little too much.
DYLAN REESE

He's so good at developing young players. He taught us so many little things that really stick with ...
DYLAN REESE

We've played against each other the last couple years, so a little bit of the thrill is gone, but th...
DYLAN REESE

I know I can go in and do a sufficient job. I don't know if I can go in and do the type job Ed did.
IKE REESE

Being up in Philly, and going to four straight championship games, I played some of the worst schedu...
IKE REESE

That's what happens when you're a good team. The NFL is really about parity, they want the teams to ...
IKE REESE

If you're expecting some kind of advantage because of the soap opera that was going on all offseason...
IKE REESE

I can see that in Michael right now.
IKE REESE

Mike's improvement as a passer is noticeable,
IKE REESE

Pee Wee thought nothing of it,
MARK REESE

My father had done his own soul searching,
MARK REESE

The old faiths light their candles all about, but burly Truth comes by and puts them out
LIZETTE REESE

This is another blind turn. There are a lot of blind turns on this track, especially when your eyeba...
LEIGHTON REESE

It is really bumpy, you can imagine coming through here at a hundred (miles per hour). There is anot...
LEIGHTON REESE

Now we get into the part of the track I call the rhythm section turns 4, 5 and 6. Hard, hard braking...
LEIGHTON REESE

This is the 3rd longest straightaway on the track. You can see that this is a bumpy track.
LEIGHTON REESE

So I am excited, yes. The emotions and your fortunes just swing wildly in this sport.
LEIGHTON REESE

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

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Reese Witherspoon

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.

Reese Witherspoon

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