Alan Lee Quotes
Everything there is contrived. All is an affect. The way your neighbors dress, the way they gossip, the ostentatiousness of the affair, the one-up-manship. Strikes me as exhausting.
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I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.
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I know I'm not gonna please everybody when I make a record. I don't let that affect any of my decisions.
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
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I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.
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The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.
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I've always been a very passionate, sometimes overly emotional person. Sometimes things affect me more than they should.
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There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.
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Whatever affect any of my films have on audiences, I just kind of stop at the door. I make them and I just don't go outside after they're over.
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We're part of a greater humanity and we can actually affect the world by the choices we make once we leave the theater.
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Creativity is never too contrived.
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Don't let any of the incidents happening now affect the will of Egyptians.
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My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I’d like it to be. I’m a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him.
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I can only say that one's individual situation is more real and important to oneself than the devastations of fates and empires especially when they do not vitally affect oneself.
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Drama school was the first place I learned that looks can affect your career. It was very horrible at the time. I had a lot of very bad experiences at drama school because of that, from the teachers and the students. In the end, I think it was good for me because it hardened me to the realities of the business early on.
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It’s more than just putting a song on a radio, it can affect someone’s life.
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Reality is all that which can affect one.
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There's a whole world of people out here whose experiences are not being reflected in the media that they're reading. And that does affect the way we view ourselves... and the people we think we can be.
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Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.
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The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.
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I get constantly mistaken for Elijah Wood. I was in Japan and someone held out a photo of him for me to sign.
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Life is about making right things and going on.
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For what I give, not what I take,
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Everything there is contrived. All is an affect. The way your neighbors dress, the way they gossip, the ostentatiousness of the affair, the one-up-manship. Strikes me as exhausting.
