Harper Lee Quotes
I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
Quotes to Explore
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.
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Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by race, by religion, by anything. It's something else. It's something other.
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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I like things simple.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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It's often the death of the show when you break the tension and the two lead characters get together.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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[Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, "Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him."
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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.
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The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
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Man is not the lord of beings. Man is the shepherd of Being.
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
