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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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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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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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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There is no doubt that, since 1977 and the launch of Apple II - the first computer it produced for the mass market - many things which used to be done on paper, or on the telephone, have been done easier and faster on a screen.
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One of the things that defines a TEDster is you've taken your passion, and you've turned it into stewardship. You actually put action to the issues you care about.
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In economics, one of the most important concepts is 'opportunity cost' - the idea that once you spend your money on something, you can't spend it again on something else.
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I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.
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I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
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My parents know how passionate I've always been about acting. I convinced them this was something that I was going to put my heart and soul into.
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My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
