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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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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I went to see 'Shine a Light,' and it was the most perfect thing I could have done to watch that man do what he does in front of an audience. It's primarily Mick Jagger, but they're all so confident and relaxed and in love with what they do, and aware of the power of what they do. It's just deeply, deeply attractive.
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there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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If one is the master of oneself, one is the resort one can depend on; therefore, one should control oneself of all.
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
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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.
