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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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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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 think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea.
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The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.
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As a singer, I have won the highest honours in China. Actually I am like the panda: we are both national treasures.
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I like to mix it up, yeah. I don't sort of think, 'Oh, I need to do a comedy, I've done three dramas this year.' I don't think of it like that, but I definitely from project to project I feel like I want to just do something different all of the time and stop, I don't want to bore myself or anyone else.
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I think horror comedies tend to skew more comedy than horror, for the most part.
