Elijah Wood Quotes
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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You try to do what you can to bring harmony wherever you go.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Putin goes to bed at night knowing he can break all the rules, and the West will follow all the rules.
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I love New York. New York is busy. It's dirty. It's smelly. I'm a real urban animal: I love cities. I like being in the middle of it all.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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The more afraid we are of the shadow of racism, the more conscious we might become of our own unsuspected biases.
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What changes with fame is the perceptions of the individual rather than the individual.
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The story ends up being a journey of self-discovery.
