Harper Lee Quotes
As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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When budget cuts happen - which has been happening a lot in this country - after-school athletics and after-school music are some of the first things to go.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
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Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.
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I've sung background for a couple of bands.
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You can't improvise without a skeletal structure; you can't just go in and start talking. This is a very misunderstood craft because no one else makes movies like this.
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I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.
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There's a fine line between a stream of consciousness and a babbling brook to nowhere.
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We're not all thin model types, and we're not all perfectly colored. It mind-boggles me that somebody would take time out of their life to make someone feel inferior because of something like that. That, to me, is insane.
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The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
