Harper Lee Quotes
he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I never wanted to be a millionaire. I just wanted to live like one.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I think comics is a really good way to talk about skepticism and atheism and things like that... it was easy to tell those stories and, I think, helpful to some people to tell them in comic form. Using visuals makes it easier to break stuff down and makes it somewhat easier to understand.
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Hold me close and tell me how you feel Tell me love is real.
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I was a fan of Lance Armstrong, and I remember watching him win the Worlds in '93 in Oslo.
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When I started modeling, I didn't feel like I had a big sister to tell me how this industry works.
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I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
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he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
