Steve Earle Quotes
Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I've yet to meet somebody who said, 'Your stories are so revolting I couldn't read them.'
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I'm not the one who was elected. I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
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I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.
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Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.
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I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
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I am essentially someone who comes from the theatre. I love the theatre. Unfortunately, theatre doesn't pay the bills. Only in theatre abroad, I get a wage.
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There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened state where I feel like I'm floating out of the theater rather than walking out.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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If we play the we are supposed to play, we can beat anybody. We just aren't doing that right now.
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Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.
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Put yourself in their shoes before you decide on the best way to take their shirts.
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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
