Harper Reed Quotes
My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
Quotes to Explore
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.
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My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger at not having been able to find honest, accurate books about people like myself as a teen, books that show we're as diverse as straight people and that we can lead happy, healthy, productive lives just as straight people can.
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The idea of doing a production of 'Carousel' that doesn't feel like it's stuck in the 1950s really intrigues me.
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No change can come if those who are impacted the most by discrimination are not willing to stand up for themselves.
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I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.
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Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.
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The ogres and witches and giants of fairytales stand in as metaphors for those obstacles that we all face in our own lives.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.
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I never made lots of money at it, but I sold enough.
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As with Google, Facebook was a place that just concentrated a lot of top talent. It's just sort of natural that those people would go on and continue to be successful.
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I live in the 20th century. I have copper rivets on my jeans.
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I've always wanted to be an action figure.
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I've decided to study the MBA, as it's crucial to have comprehensive knowledge of business administration and management in running science technology institutes as well as making science-related policies.
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While few human challenges are greater than that of being good parents, few opportunities offer greater potential for joy. Surely, no more important work is to be done in this world than preparing our children to be God-fearing, happy, honorable, and productive.
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My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
