Conor Oberst Quotes
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Texas, with her superior natural advantages, must become a point of attraction, and the policy of establishing with her the earliest relations of friendship and commerce will not escape the eye of statesmen.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
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If the first bite is with the eye and the second with the nose, some people will never take that third, actual bite if the food in question smells too fishy, fermented or cheesy.
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When I was five, I discovered a secret box that contained Mummy's stage makeup. It was like finding buried treasure. I tried the rouge, the eye shadow, the lipstick. But I couldn't get the rouge off. Mummy spanked me terribly.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into you, so you really have to learn to open your mind, open your heart and be super compassionate about other people's points of view, faith and opinions.
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I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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I do not have a child and all allegations saying so are false.
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Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
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In America, people are so busy. Even the children are busy. I get the impression very few of us are touching the miracle that you are alive.
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Even worthwhile endeavors need evaluation in order to determine if they have become distractions from the best goals.
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it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.
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Please know my deep respect for humans and human life. Such beautiful, fragile animals, so fleeting and easily broken and yet powerful beyond anything faeries can ever hope to be. We cannot create but live forever, unchanging. You change with every breath, dying even as you live, but your thread to eternity and immortality is reborn with every new generation
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Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.
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So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
