Steve Earle Quotes

I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

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• I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • You
  • Nice

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • World
  • Different
  • Think

• When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • Love
  • Care
  • Child

• My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended family somehow, and I recall her talking about this great, risk-taking woman. There are the most amazing, heroic stories in everybody's lives.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Family
  • Mother

• When you're a kid and practice on clay, you're always, 'Oh, I wish I could win Roland Garros.'

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Wish
  • Practice

• One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Up
  • Time
  • Words

• I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

  

  Elliot Page
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

  

  Billy Eckstine

• The countries with the greatest problems have the kindest people.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • People

• Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path.

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Time
  • Travel
  • Path

• I'm a workaday writer.

  

  Donald McCaig

• I interview about three thousand models yearly, and I must see almost 20 tons of excess avoirdupois annually.

  

  Eileen Ford

• I don't care what you have done before or what you are capable of: if you come up against a guy like me, you are in trouble.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Up
  • Done
  • Guy

• Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

  

  Ellen Barkin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Respect

• In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

  

  Kim Edwards
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Beautiful

• I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

  

  August Wilson
  • Experience
  • America
  • Black

• After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.

  

  Alice Hoffman
  • Writing
  • Real

• I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.

  

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • World

• To grieve is something extremely difficult, we don't even know how to begin to grieve, and I don't know how you can be taught to grieve.

  

  Charlotte Rampling

• Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street.

  

  John Sununu
  • Life
  • Art
  • Business

• Similarly the men who produce works of genius are not those who live in the most delicate atmosphere, whose conversation is most brilliant, or their culture broadest, but those who have had the power, ceasing in a moment to live only for themselves, to make use of their personality as of a mirror.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Mirror
  • Genius
  • Conversation

• I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.

  

  Steve Earle
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