Harper Reed Quotes
The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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I love an iPad game of Scrabble.
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I never had high expectations going into Hollywood. I went there just to work.
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I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.
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The web is democratising and also the voice of people who don't think they have another outlet. And that voice can be punitive.
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I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.
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I'm always amused when the 'New York Times' writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, 'This is the way Republicans can save themselves.' Look, the 'New York Times' disagrees with us. They're entitled to disagree with us, but it's not like we should take their advice.
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I feel there is a great sense of achievement coming from a non-filmy background. But when you are going through a low phase, you don't have anybody to advice you because your parents possibly can't advice you on that.
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Fame is a four letter word and like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or life, or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.
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suppose you invest time and effort in designing a new image for yourself. You get home and your husband takes one look and screams, 'Was the other person hurt? I see you've been in a head-on collision.' ... Men hate any change.
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The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes.
