Neil Patrick Harris Quotes
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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Racism is unacceptable in the real world, and it's unacceptable online.
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I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I love to cook when I have the time. I don't cook French or Mexican food with exact recipes. I just go to the supermarket and buy things that look good, and I mix it all together and invent something. Ninety-five percent of the time, I'm lucky. Sometimes not so lucky, and I say, 'Let's go out to dinner.'
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
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I want more women to run countries. There'd be more peace on Earth.
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I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.
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We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.
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I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.
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I like the action business. I like the action movies. I guess Hollywood wants to see me do action. So I am down. I like it.
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
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The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
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There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.
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I think that's why I gravitated toward slightly broader... ummm, more conceptual kinds of movies, Underworld and Van Helsing. That was as much as I could actually give. But you're actually more of an animated figure. It does go against the grain, as an actor.
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
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Money power means budget power and it is folly to imagine that the citizen can control government unless he can control its budget.
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It's easy to get squashed down in this business, for sure. Nashville can definitely train you to not get too excited.
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I am interested in people who swim in the deep end. I want to have conversations about real things with people who have experienced real things. I'm tired of talking about movies and gossiping about friends. Life is crunchy and complicated and all the more delicious.
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A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.
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You just take things as they come.
