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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Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.
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Oil is a very important component of economic growth.
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The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.
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Our present ecological crisis, the biggest single practical threat to our human existence in the middle to long term, has, religious people would say, a great deal to do with our failure to think of the world as existing in relation to the mystery of God, not just as a huge warehouse of stuff to be used for our convenience.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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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.
