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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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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We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.
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If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
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We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.
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I am Syrian, I was made in Syria, I have to live in Syria and die in Syria.
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Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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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.
