Conor Oberst Quotes
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Everyone romanticizes somebody.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.
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The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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The predominant theory of the origin of the universe is the Big Bang.
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
