Steve Earle Quotes

I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

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• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Amazing

• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• In general, I think comedy is more difficult to write, to direct, and to act successfully.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Difficult

• My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Father
  • Day
  • Moment

• I'm sharpest early, and though I can rewrite any time, day or night, I'm useless after noon when it comes to writing first draft.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Night

• But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friendship
  • Rose
  • Sweets

• President Clinton's record of advocating for the middle class and creating millions of new jobs and opportunity for Americans is second to none. I'm looking forward to campaigning with him and talking about how we keep New Hampshire moving forward and build a strong, innovative economy with the best workforce in the country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Strong
  • Opportunity

• If, by chance, you were to meet me at the Casablanca airport or on a boat sailing from Tangiers, you would think me self-confident, but I am not. Even now, at my age, I am frightened when crossing borders because I am afraid of failing to understand strangers.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Chance
  • Understand
  • Boat

• That’s because you can’t hold something in your mind but a little while, said Jem. It’s different with grown folks, we-

  

  Harper Lee
  • Different
  • Mind

• Fear not the thunder, little one.It's weather, simply weather;It's friendly giants full of funClapping their hands together.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Together
  • Fear

• If you tell me 2 + 2 is 4, and I know it is, then you... shove marbles up your ass, I go 'Damn, Anthony shoves marbles in his ass?' But the fact that you shove marbles in your ass doesn't invalidate 2 + 2 = 4.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Up

• I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Religious

• I'm the world's greatest fan of your President Ronald Reagan, as you know. I think he's done terrific things and I think that in his recent speech, the keynote that he struck, that America is a confident leader of the free world, is the right one and I'm absolutely delighted at the way in which confidence had returned to the United States.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • Done
  • America

• For at the real heart of battle for equality is a deep-seated belief in the democratic process. Equality depends not on the force of arms or tear gas but upon the force of moral right; not on recourse to violence but on respect for law and order.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Real
  • Heart
  • Law

• My little sister, who is four, can work my mom's iPhone better than she can.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Work
  • She
  • Mom

• The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.

  

  Lea Salonga
  • Words
  • Lyrics
  • Appreciation

• There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Strong
  • Church
  • Irish

• All my stuff is men's fashion. It's always oversized shirts, boyfriend blazers and trousers.

  

  Bella Heathcote
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Boyfriend

• Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Good

• You have done all the work in this business. I get a wife out of it, Jones gets the credit, pray what remains for you?" "For me," said Sherlock Holmes, "there still remains the cocaine bottle.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Work
  • Business
  • Wife

• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

  

  Franz Beckenbauer
  • World
  • Heart
  • Positive

• My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Color
  • Hands

• I think the criticism that I take to heart is from other writers that I respect.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Heart
  • Criticism