Harper Lee Quotes
From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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Around a third of parents still worry that they will look like a bad mother or father if their child has a mental health problem. Parenting is hard enough without letting prejudices stop us from asking for the help we need for ourselves and our children.
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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When I was in college at Amherst, my father asked me a favor: to take one course in economics. I loved it - for the challenge of its mysteries.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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I've been working on the screen right from childhood and am completely in love with my work. And this experience has taught me that ultimately, it's a good script, good work that matters, whether in Bollywood or in the South.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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When we talk about communities, we seldom discuss the margins. But for every person nestled comfortably in the bosom of a community, there is someone else on the outskirts, feeling ambivalent. Ambiguous. Excluded. Unwilling or unable to come more fully into the fold.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest small town, so I hardly ever saw him.
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I remember for my 18th birthday, I was going to get a tattoo, and I made the mistake of thinking I was a man and telling my father, and he was like, 'Oh yeah? You better tattoo a new address on your arm, because you're not living here!' And that was the end of that discussion.
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A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.
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I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.
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Todos los soles se esfuerzan en encender tu llama y un microbio la extingue.
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I like happy endings.
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I'll always take an artistic endeavor over a career move.
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From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
