Conor Oberst Quotes
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I've had jokes stolen a thousand times. But if you can do it better than me, you can have it. I've had jokes stolen from me in the club when I'm next on stage. And my brain will start to turn, and the gears will start turning, and I'll go onstage and create a whole new bit.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
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On June 23, 1864, Ambrose Bierce was in command of a skirmish line of Union soldiers at Kennesaw Mountain in northern Georgia. He'd been a soldier for three years and, in that time, had been commended by his superiors for his efficiency and bravery during battle.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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When everyone is telling you, 'You're so beautiful, there's nobody like you,' you begin to think it's true. But of course there is nobody like you.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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I think it's the actor's job - when you think of being typecast or getting out of the shadow of whatever you've had success in - it's up to you as an actor. The industry will always want to hire you for what you were successful in last and what made money. But you can say no to that and look for other parts.
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People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
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I think that we need to live our lives for the present... as if it is our one and only wild and wonderful life.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
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Eventually, I realized that there was only so much that I could put in the way of my happiness, and acting made me happier than anything else.
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Oh, what's this in my shoe? Red carpet insole. Everywhere I go, I'm walking on red carpet.
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Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
