Elijah Wood Quotes
I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.
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If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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In fighting, you're not going 200 mph, but there's obviously danger in the sport. If you're a fighter or a NASCAR driver, you're obviously an adrenaline junkie. Both also take a lot of skill.
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I think there are plenty of Libertarians that are socially conservative.
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Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second, and you can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.
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There's no regrets for me.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
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You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
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Recently I have noticed football banners representing other clubs, such as Derby and Leeds, appearing.
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To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.
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The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.
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I won't change and my perspective won't change. I want to continue my life the way I live it, and I'm not going to let anything stop me from doing that. It isn't all about acting. There's a lot more to life than Hollywood.
