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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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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There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.
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At ABC Cocina and Kitchen, 90 percent of our produce and vegetables come from Union Square, and that's all from upstate New York farmers. We are simply committed to this idea of local, organic food.
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When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.
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In my state, the Republican Party was the most progressive party.
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Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.
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Social media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and a platform to anyone willing to engage.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
