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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People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.
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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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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Anything that makes us take more seriously scientists - or economists or chemists or physicists or biologists - I think is helpful in times when things get distorted because of people not paying attention to all the facts.
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I love listening to demos. They're so raw.
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On Update, the only real original thing was trying to take away the cleverness of the punchline and make it as blunt as possible.
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
