Kurt Vile Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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Most Americans are more concerned about the economy and job creation. And they can't understand why the Obama administration or the Democrat majority in Congress wants to pass a bill like the cap-and-trade tax that will cost us jobs, that will hurt our economy, that will drive up costs for families, as well as for small businesses.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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We saw hundreds of programs to redevelop the central city, the neighborhoods, in the past.
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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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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
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You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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After I play a gig, I'm like a different person: I have superhuman strength.
