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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There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cult level.
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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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Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.
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As a teenager, I would tell the teacher I was sick just so I could lie down in the nurse's office and listen to my headphones, thinking about how that day may be the best day ever, but I'm only capable of acknowledging that from a sickbed, lost in my own world.
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Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.
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Life should be touched, not strangled.
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Images today have now become so extreme that what used to be considered hardcore is now mainstream pornography.
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So when your new eyes meet mine they won't see no lies, just love.
