Elijah Wood Quotes
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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I think studies are really important and shouldn't be compromised.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I don't think the lifestyle that I have, the things going on in my life right now, you could put that on any 23-year-old kid. But, you know, I was raised right, and I'm prepared for whatever.
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Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
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I would lie in bed at night composing letters to Kennedy and Khrushchev, trying to convince them that they really didn't want to blow up the world. It seemed so simple to me that we just shouldn't hurt each other.
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The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.
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It was a wonderful project to work on, and a very different character for me.
