Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I firmly believe that with President Trump in the White House, we have such a great opportunity as conservatives.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Don't let your fear paralyze you. Prepare yourself not only technically, but also emotionally.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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My wife runs a non-profit that gives legal information online to victims of domestic violence.
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I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
