Amos Lee Quotes

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Hope
  • Reading
  • Alone

• 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.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Day

• It's the rich you can terrorize. The poor have nothing to lose.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Rich
  • Lose

• 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.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• Look good, feel good, play good.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Good
  • Look
  • Feel Good

• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Trust
  • End

• It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Job
  • Never
  • Finish

• I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.

  

  Aaron Staton
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Competitive

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Long
  • Will
  • Survive

• Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

  

  Ralph Ransom
  • Man
  • Goal
  • Improving

• I want to be sublimely happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy

• I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

  

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth
  • Simple

• None of this 'there is no way to continue' bullshit. Because it is pure and utter SHIT.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

  

  Matt Bomer

• 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.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Food
  • Kitchen

• When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Work
  • Long

• I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • People
  • Lost

• For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Desire

• Let no one trust so entirely to natural prudence as to persuade himself that it will suffice to guide him without help from experience.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Trust

• To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.

  

  Angela Duckworth
  • Work
  • Long
  • Kids

• I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

  

  Amos Lee