Harper Lee Quotes
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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All of us grow.
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I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Ireland, in breadth, and for wholesomeness and serenity of climate, far surpasses Britain; for the snow scarcely ever lies there above three days: no man makes hay in the summer for winter's provision, or builds stables for his beasts of burden... the island abounds in milk and honey.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.
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They're great girls. They're very funny, they're very smart, they're fun to be with. They're very lively, as I think people can tell. And you know, they're very confident girls.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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One day, I was playing 'The Game of Life,' the board game, with a mess of kids, and I wasn't quite sure how, but it seemed different than the game I remembered playing as a kid. So I bought an old game, from 1960, and it was different.
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It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
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In my novel, 'First Blood,' Rambo died. In the films, he lives.
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All I do is look, listen and try to make sense of what I find, in biological terms.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.
