Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
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Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.
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I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.
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Growing up, people would always say, 'You have such a pretty face.' It's kind of backhanded. That's the kind of things we have to stomach.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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I was pampered by all my father's directors and producers during childhood. But at home, my father made sure I led a normal life.
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It must be so hard trying to figure yourself out in this industry. Justin Bieber has hit rock-bottom with everyone watching him; that is just so tough.
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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Ours is a problem in which deception has become organized and strong; where truth is poisoned at its source; one in which the skill of the shrewdest brains is devoted to misleading a bewildered people.
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Our family are an alternate stratification of poetry and mathematics.
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We thought being offered the M.B.E. Member of the Order of the British Empire was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.
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I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.
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Wer keine Blume mehr liebt, dem ist alle Liebe und Gottesfurcht verloren.
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I'm a big cockeyed optimist. I try to accentuate the positive as opposed to the negative.
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I write in the mornings, two or three hours every day, and then at least four times a week I play in a duplicate game at a bridge club. I try to go to tournaments three, four, or five times a year.
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I am cocky in prediction, I am confident in preparation but I am always humble in victory or defeat.
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And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon.
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It is vain to expect virtue from women till they are in some degree independent of men; nay, it is vain to expect that strength of natural affection which would make them good wives and mothers. Whilst they are absolutely dependent on their husbands they will be cunning, mean, and selfish.
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To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content.
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Jim Henson was the only piece of fan mail I ever wrote when I was a little kid.
