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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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow 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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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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Good actors, especially when they know their character, will come in and either tell you in advance that they have an idea, or in the middle of the rehearsal or the scene they'll let it loose and you go, 'Ah that's great.'
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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I honestly think I was an Indian living in the time of the Trail of Tears. Something like that. Every time I read books about back then, I get so devastatingly sad, so, so... I feel such a deep connection to it.
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I wasn't accepted the first time I tried to get into drama school. I said, 'I'll give this one more shot... and if that doesn't work, I won't bang my head against this painful brick wall.'
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I go in and out of mental funks all the time 'cause it comes with the territory.
