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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Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.
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Life is one big question when your starin at the clock.
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A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal.
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It's important to have a non-nostalgic view and say, let's look forward, because if we don't, all we'll hear are voices telling us to go back.
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
