Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.
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I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
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When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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It is not weird for a dad to be doing the dishes, the laundry, and taking the kids to school, and read them stories for bed.
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People watch me, waiting for me to slip up, so my privacy has gone - but that's a price you pay.
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The American school system's a little warped, so anyone can get a degree if they have a little money.
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In school, I was Martha in 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' I loved that.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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In the same way that our school system feels strongly about requiring vaccinations and annual physicals, I feel strongly that it is essential to add a mental health component to that annual physical.
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I think that it's hard enough being an adolescent and wanting so much to fit in with your peers, your schoolmates, and to erase any sign of difference, to be part of the group. And being biracial but also being black in a predominately white school marked me as different.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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My father is an amazing person. While he was a huge star, he never carried his stardom home and always remained simple and just our father at home. I have four siblings, and we were all very grounded. We lived a very simple life: would go in an auto rickshaw to school, played with normal boys.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.
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I certainly witnessed bullying as a teen in both a small and a big school setting. I feel like it is a universal topic.
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It's not always about the money and the fame, and a lot of people think that it is sometimes.
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I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
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Whenever I wasn't in school with a tutor three hours a day, I'd get a knock and be rushed to set and they'd be waiting and I'd film my thing and then I'd go back to school again.
