Kurt Vile Quotes
I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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In life, sometimes you just lose.
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It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
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I've had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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Bobby made references to me a few times on Show Me The Money. He seemed to enjoy using words like 'sangnamja (T/N: true man, also the title for 'Boy in Luv') and 'leading a fast life' (T/N: pronounced as Bangtang). Saying "Like a true man, I lead a fast life" isn't a common mix of words, right? I thought that it wasn't just a coincidence.
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As much as I might decry the students, as much as they're a nightmare, it's a privilege to be among youth.
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Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.
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I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
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You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.
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I'm not cynical, but the reality is that life is mortal. Terrible, sad things happen. Everybody loses friends and family. I'll be on tour and get really scared if my wife won't answer her phone within one minute. I'm sensitive.
