Harper Lee Quotes
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Many people focus on my power and talk about my power, but I have many more qualities in the ring. I like to surprise everyone.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
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You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields.
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You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.
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In the theatre, the actor is in total control. The director wasn't in the house last night, the designer wasn't there, the author's dead. It's just us and the audience.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
