Kurt Vile Quotes
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My activism and sexual revolution in New York was a factor.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually very much like 'Castle' in that people are attracted to him, and just want to be near him. You want to know where my brother is in a crowded room? He's the guy with the crowd around him.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
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Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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The money factor had been kind of my excuse as to why I hadn't put out any music. So I just found the cheapest way to make music and get it to people, and that was via the Internet.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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One of my first purchases after I signed to RCA was a BMW. I was driving on the highway, and I heard 'Don't' come on. It was a real moment.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.
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I like relativity and quantum theories because I don't understand them and they make me feel as if space shifted about like a swan that can't settle, refusing to sit still and be measured; and as if the atom were an impulsive thing always changing its mind.
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I had a wacky job driving a forklift for an air freight company. That was the worst.
