Steve Earle Quotes
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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I love the smell of a real Christmas tree - also, my mum's Christmas pudding with brandy sauce.
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I can't drink anything but chocolate. I don't even like any milk but chocolate. When I eat cereal, I barely touch the white part.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure.
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There aren't a lot of films about adolescents or quote-unquote coming-of-age films that are realistic nowadays.
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God is truth and light his shadow.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.
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The only real power comes out of a long rifle.
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How much wilderness do the wilderness-lovers want? ask those who would mine and dig and cut and dam in such sanctuary spots as these. The answer is easy: Enough so that there will be in the years ahead a little relief, a little quiet, a little relaxation, for any of our increasing millions who need and want it.
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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
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The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.
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Oh, but my treasure, it is so much less exhausting. You only have to forgive once. To resent, you have to do it all day, every day. You have to keep remembering all the bad things.
