Harper Reed Quotes
My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
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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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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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I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation.
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Portability is for people who cannot write new programs.
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'Mean Girls' is awesome.
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Start going to bed earlier! It is a tough adjustment when you have had a summer of staying up late and waking up late.
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You know, photo conversations are replacing verbal conversations. I don't know if that's a bad thing. A photo is worth a thousand words.
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It’s all about loving what you got and rocking it.
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
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My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things.
