Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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Now, you see, if you understand what I'm saying, with your intelligence, and then take the next step and say 'But I understood it now, but I didn't feel it.' Then, next I raise the question: Why do you want to feel it? You say: 'I want something more', because that's again that spiritual greed. And you could only say that because you didn't understand it.
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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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In the fall of 1943 we brought home our second son, whom we named Alexander.
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Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
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I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
