Harper Lee Quotes
Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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I'm just going to go live life. I'm going to go enjoy life. I have nothing left to hide. I am kind of a free person, a free soul.
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Hairdressers call me dark blonde, but I think they're wrong. I feel far more naturally confident blonde. My mum's blonde, my sister's platinum blonde. I thought, 'When I grow up, that's what I'm going to look like.'
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
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Washington presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and is often credited with its success. But he had no known part in drafting its provisions.
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The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Black America knows better than anyone else the high price children pay for the sexual agendas of adults.
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Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.
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Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.
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As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.
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You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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Where could you find a light to guide the world?
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Sequels face the risk of being constantly compared to the first film.
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
