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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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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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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I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows.
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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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I'm not in the judgment part of journalism.
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I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
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They are sweating as much as anyone onstage. Their focus has to be that of somebody working on the balance beam. We're all three in sync. We have to feel what the other is doing. One lifts me up, the other, side to side. They're like puppeteers almost.
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I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.
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I'm not a mass-appeal artist.
