Kurt Vile Quotes
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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We will win an election when all the seats in the House and Senate and the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office and the whole bench of the Supreme Court are filled with people who wish they weren't there.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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You've got to be realistic.
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I never wanted to just press play on some DJ set and let the lights do all the work. I value old-fashioned performance a little more than that.
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.
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I view myself as a dealmaker.
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I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now.
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Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
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We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel.
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I just really like Houston despite its craziness. There is a sense of energy and a kind of excitement, 'We're going places and God knows what'll happen next.' It's very interesting. It's very exciting.
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I hate overweight, because it implies that there's a weight standard I should be adhering to.
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To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, and they are staying silent when they are violating my fundamental rights.
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.
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Long ago, he had made that choice between work and life that can seldom be avoided at the highest levels of human endeavor … Any fool could shuffle genes, and most did. But whether or not history gave him credit, few men could have achieved what he had done - and was about to do.
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I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!'
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I definitely write about my life and the issues I might have or the dilemmas I'm going through, but usually I write about it in a general way and make metaphors. Like "I'm the wolf and you are the moon ".
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
Khedron was content with the order of things as it was. True, he might upset that order from time to time-but only by a little. He was a critic, not a revolutionary. On the placidly flowing river of time, he wished only to make a few ripples; he shrank from diverting its course.
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One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books.
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It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.
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I don't know if we actually showed up, to tell you the truth. All they did was guard our point guard, and some of our kids didn't respond. But I'm proud of them. We've come a long way from last season. They only won three games last season.
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I've been known to just pass out instantaneously, like, anywhere.
