Conor Oberst Quotes
Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown.Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown,filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends,singing 'I won't ever be lonely again'
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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Because I'm in the public eye, I think that I would prefer to date someone regular who isn't in the news all the time, but I think even if you date someone regular, they'll still put it in the news.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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Imagine Texas as a blue state: how hard it would be to carry the presidency or gain control of the Senate.
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My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative.
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown.Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of downtown,filled with people who are shopping for their lovers and their friends,singing 'I won't ever be lonely again'
