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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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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Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
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I didn't really know what I wanted to do, and then I got this call from a casting director in Los Angeles. She remembered me from something years before, and she called my mom wanting me to audition for this thing.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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I've had a very fortunate career and I've loved every moment of it.
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Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they are often okay with the idea that the genealogy of human groups within our species can sometimes be inferred in much the same way as the genealogy of different species.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.