Kurt Vile Quotes
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.
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There have been periods of my career that I haven't worked for a really long time, like seven or eight months.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy.
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I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next step was to think innovators are taking a leap into the unknown. That led me to the thought that it is also a source of fun and employee engagement.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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The only time a friend has ever helped me in the industry was how I got my first job - that was through Mike Figgis.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.
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I think every time, before we do an album, we have a discussion where we sort of consider the idea of doing something radically different.
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I first came on the scene during the Johnson years and that crowd was out all the time enjoying themselves. Nixon wasn't particularly social but a lot of the people in his administration were.
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Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
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People think it's funny that I enjoy dreaming so much. I just use it as a form of entertainment. It's very private. I don't see my dreams as separate. I mean, half the time I'm wandering around dreaming anyway.
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I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
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Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.
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America is haunted by an apparition steeped in slavery, and I wanted to remind everyone that, 'Yo, we've got to handle this.'
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A lot of men are competitive about being funny.
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I had a really fun time working with the HARRYS guys and their whole crew.
