Harper Reed Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
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Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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Sports is like a war without the killing.
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When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I like to be who I am.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.
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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.
