Harper Lee Quotes
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I'm very content.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
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My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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It's a remarkable exercise to sit and look at your own work over the years.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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I'm just happy to be doing a job that I love.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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Violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal.
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I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
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Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50 between the men and the women - the man's 50 percent share was to sit in the woods with a sharp stick, waiting for something to hunt to wander by, and the woman's 50 percent was to do everything else.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
