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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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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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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Every day, some act of kindness comes my way, even if it's just someone opening the door. It happens every day if you keep an eye out for it. Keeping an eye out, that's the key.
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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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Along the way, female filmmakers will have the feeling that they're not good enough. And that's really just a result of being "otherized" from the moment they're born. Keep an eye out for all those insecurities, and even expect them. Borrow white male privilege and just move through the world as if it was created for you. You have to kind of talk yourself into an imaginary space where the world is on your side and expects you to speak and wants you to speak. You have to create that space for yourself over and over again. Every hour sometimes.
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the ruder lecturers are, and the louder their voices, the more converts they make to their opinions.
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Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.
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The discussions are at a formative stage and it would be inappropriate to speculate on the outcome.
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It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
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So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
