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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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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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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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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And, Mr. Speaker, if the Governor and Council don't see fit to fall in with us, I say let the general duty law, and all, go to the devil, sir, and go about our business.
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
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We’re freaks, that’s all. Those two bastards got us nice and early and made us into freaks with freakish standards, that’s all. We’re the tattooed lady, and we’re never going to have a minute’s peace, the rest of our lives, until everybody else is tattooed, too.
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People in this world shun people for being great, for being a bright color, for standing out. But the time is now, to be OK with being the greatest you.
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I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.
