Steve Earle Quotes
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
Quotes to Explore
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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Obamacare is a private mandate that will drive billions to the insurance industry, much like the auto insurance mandate. Hardly socialism. In fact, it was a Republican plan to begin with.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
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We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.
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That song ["Money to Burn"] is me being a fly on the wall in situations in LA. I mean, I've seen the way a lot of people operate and I've seen that sort of thing go down. There's a lot of rich kids with a little bit of extra money.
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If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.
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Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
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Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.
