Harper Lee Quotes

Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

Harper Lee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016

Topics

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Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.

Jerry Della Femina

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Almost everything looks better from a distance, Long Island included.

Jerry Della Femina

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I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

Jennifer Morrison

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Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.

Andy Coulson

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I'm a huge fan of John Malkovich and Josh Brolin, and Michael Shannon has got to be one of my favorite actors.

John Gallagher, Jr.

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I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world.

Andrea Barrett

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I put a lot of time and energy into studying the art of filmmaking, but I hadn't put a lot of energy or time into the art of learning how to manage people.

Max Joseph

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I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.

Jeff Bridges

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What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don't want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.

Michael Fassbender

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If you've got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they're getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.

Robbie Coltrane

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I sadly never got to my prom. I was shooting 'The Outsiders.'

Rob Lowe

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What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought to be. Every generation enjoys rediscovering it.

Mary Beard

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