Amos Lee Quotes
The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
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When you have brothers, you learn to be fiercely competitive with someone you love so they won't kill you and you won't kill them.
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I grew up as a country boy.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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Children who have an education grow up to lead healthier lives - earn higher income, take better care of their families, contribute to their economies.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it.
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If you believe these polls, you're making a mistake.
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I like to act with people that know what they're doing.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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Healthy forests and wetlands stand sentry against the dangers of climate change, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and locking it away in plants, root systems and soil.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I could have made $2bn or $3bn - and ended up with some very cruel addiction - but I chose to be a civil rights warrior instead.
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Mathematics is not a contemplative but a creative subject; no one can draw much consolation from it when he has lost the power or the desire to create; and that is apt to happen to a mathematician rather soon. It is a pity, but in that case he does not matter a great deal anyhow, and it would be silly to bother about him.
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It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
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Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.
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My most profound growth as a writer came when I joined an online critique group. What a harrowing, terrifying, wonderful experience that was.
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The cool thing about being a songwriter, or a writer, I guess, in general, you can take on a lot of different things, experience a lot of different things, just by writing about them.
