Kurt Vile Quotes
When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.
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Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.
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I can't go to war with paparazzi.
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I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
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I don't accept any money, free products, or anything else of value from the companies whose products I cover or from their public relations or advertising agencies.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
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I like to show that I'm real.
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You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
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The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
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We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor knows that hidden inside himself there's a wizard and a king, he also knows that when he's playing himself in his daily life, he's playing a part, he's performing, just as he's performing when he plays a part on stage.
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I grew up watching science fiction and action movies. I love it. I absolutely love it!
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'I knew God had heard my prayer when I learned that it was you and no other who drew this case.''One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?'
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She's a good hearted woman in love with a good timin' man.She loves him in spite of his ways she don't understand.With teardrops & laughter they pass through this world hand in hand,A good hearted woman, lovin' a good timin' man.
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The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
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The moon is nothingBut a circumambulating aphrodisiacDivinely subsidized to provoke the worldInto a rising birth-rate.
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Leisure requires the evidence of our own feelings, because it is not so much a quality of time as a peculiar state of mind. ... What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.
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If you have one person you’re influenced by, everyone will say you’re the next whoever. But if you rip off a hundred people, everyone will say you’re so original!
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When I first got the record deal, I thought it felt like I won the lottery. But I always worked hard at it.
