Quote by Harper Lee
I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird... I sort of

I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird… I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. – Harper Lee

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Folks dont like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. Youre not gonna change any of them by talking right, theyve got to want to learn themselves, and when they dont want to learn theres nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language. – Harper Lee

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As you grow older, youll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and dont you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. – Harper Lee

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. – Harper Lee

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Its nice, being brought up with no money at all. Its just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier. – Bode Miller

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Desire is the key to motivation, but its the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek. – Mario Andretti

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I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like Oprah and Ellen, are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself. – Jane Pauley

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Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the games two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself. – Jack Nicklaus

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But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating. – Linda McCartney

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Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion. – Ninon de LEnclos

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A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti