Elijah Wood Quotes
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.
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People are surprised by the poverty and think that I wasn't cared for. But that wasn't the case - I was deeply loved.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
