Kurt Vile Quotes
When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me.
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It's really important to me that the public have confidence in their criminal justice system. We don't operate very well if the public doesn't trust us.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I've always written about animals. I'm still trying to process why that is.
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Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.
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On Nov. 5, 2012, my friend Elliott Carter died in New York at the age of 103. For me, he was and remains one of the most interesting figures of music history in the past century.
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The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.
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I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
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There wasn't really one time in my life where I was like, 'I want to be a model!'
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I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
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As a youngster in the projects, I definitely didn't have anything. So if you get something, you want to be able to give back and help others.
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When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
