Kurt Vile Quotes
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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My first big influences were more hip-hop based - people like DJ Shadow and Four Tet.
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When you are new at sheep-raising and your ewe has a lamb, your impulse is to stay there and help it nurse and see to it and all. After a while, you know that the best thing you can do is walk out of the barn.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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The record was only released in the UK, and then when the idea for the remixed album came about, which was an idea that I've had for the longest time, I said this would be great song to remix as well, and so we did it.
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We want to see the newest things. That is because we want to see the future, even if only momentarily. It is the moment in which, even if we don't completely understand what we have glimpsed, we are nonetheless touched by it. This is what we have come to call art.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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Living in a system under the Communist ideology, an artist cannot avoid fighting for freedom of expression. You always have to be aware that art is not only a self-expression but a demonstration of human rights and dignity. To express yourself freely, a right as personal as it is, has always been difficult, given the political situation.
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By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
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I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.
