Conor Oberst Quotes
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'
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In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.
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Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.
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When you get into statistical analysis, you don't really expect to achieve fame. Or to become an Internet meme. Or be parodied by 'The Onion' - or be the subject of a cartoon in 'The New Yorker.' I guess I'm kind of an outlier there.
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It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I like the fact that this kind of family has been seen in a movie a million times: teenage kids, the family is a bit strained and they don't have enough money, but in the background the guy used to be a Gene Simmons type.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Computers make me totally blank out.
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I'm very fortunate to have the privilege of working with directors like Bill Condon and Paul Thomas Anderson, who I think is one of the greatest filmmakers of our time.
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It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
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Navigating with a partner makes it half as difficult. We keep each other in check. It's not like she [Angie Marr] was ever a quiet little wifey wife behind the scenes. She's exactly like me. She's very smart. We're very lucky that we've always wanted the same things. She loves guitar music, she loves important records, and our lives are about records and shows and great bands.
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I'm kind of like, "never say never."
