Conor Oberst Quotes

A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.

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• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

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• But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

  

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• Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

  

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• Part of the reason for moving to New York was the sense that it just didn't matter how much work I did in England, I continued to be seen simply as a Redgrave. I did feel I could be who I am in New York and we all like to feel appreciated.

  

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• A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

  

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• Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.

  

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• Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'

  

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• What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.

  

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• When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

  

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  

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• If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

  

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• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

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• I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.

  

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• I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

  

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• Getting old is better than being young. You can do what you want to do.

  

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• I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band.

  

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• Americans look at the Middle East as a source of trauma because of 9/11. At the same time, I could see the fear going on in the Middle East as well - which would be the next country to be invaded or sanctioned? Being around those tensions was traumatic for me.

  

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• Certainly, no studio is going to put its money and its muscle behind something that they don't think they can spin five or six movies out of and build a whole kind of imaginary universe from anymore, I think.

  

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• As much as we've enjoyed it up here, we're also starting to look forward to seeing all the people back on Earth that we miss and love so much.

  

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• Anytime I listen to my gut and I don't do something, or I do, it always tends to work out in my favor.

  

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• History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

  

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• A lot of the mythology that sprung up around Haile Selassie, it's not like something he asked for, having people deify him. That's pretty heavy. I don't know what you do in that situation.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • People
  • Situation
  • Mythology