Amos Lee Quotes
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I think it's always best to be who you are.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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Bosses will tell you they are looking for something different but they're not, actually.
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It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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It is sometimes hard to grasp the difference between identifying with one's own roots, understanding people with other roots, and judging what is good or bad.
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As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
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Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
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I want to be sublimely happy.
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I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
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The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
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Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
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Today we haved touched Mars. There is life on Mars, and it us us-extensions of our eyes in all directions, extensions of our mind, extensions of our heart and soul have touched Mars today. That's the message to look for there: We are on Mars. We are the Martians!
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My favorite prayer is Footprints in the Sand. You know that prayer? I know the times that he carried me, you know? I kind of wore him out.
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If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
