Kurt Vile Quotes
I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.
Quotes to Explore
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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Funny is an attitude.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
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I am a just man.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
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I tend to think that knowledge is preceded by power instead of the other way around.
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I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
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I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.
