Kurt Vile Quotes

I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.

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• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • True
  • Goal

• I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Interesting
  • Company
  • Canada

• I love people, and the hustle.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Love
  • Hustle

• The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

  

  Vernon A. Walters
  • Place
  • Achieve
  • Resolution

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Different
  • Home
  • Week

• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Way

• I have worked very hard to shed away my chocolate boy image in order to get a tough look for this action entertainer. I am confident of my success and would love to dedicate the same to Director Balachandar sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Success
  • Action

• I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Mind
  • Creativity

• For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• Hydrogen holds great promise to meet many of our future energy needs, and it addresses national security and our environmental concerns. Hydrogen is the simplest, most abundant element in the universe.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Great
  • Future
  • Energy

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• There isn't much of a music scene in Hermann, unless you like polka. But the landscape I grew up in is a part of me. I spent a lot of time in the woods doing a lot of nothing to break the boredom.

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Time
  • Past
  • Present

• I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • People
  • Business
  • Technology

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Children
  • Bad

• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Writing
  • Art
  • True

• We're having so much writing some of the sillier stuff that never would have been on Mr. Show. And that's not a knock on Mr. Show at all, because it's my favorite comedy show of all time. Even before I worked on it. It's just really refreshing to write something so stupid and say, "We gotta do that."

  

  B. J. Porter
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• I write a lot when I'm feeling bummed, but other times, you get locked in, and it's totally personal. If you're really low and writing, you're not thinking about anybody at all.

  

  Kurt Vile
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Feeling