Conor Oberst Quotes
It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
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You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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People don't get my sense of humour.
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I'm a real girly-girl.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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The new 'Joy' was needed for a number of reasons. Recent developments in nutrition and new ingredients were two of the major reasons for the revision. One of the other big reasons was America's new love for big flavors. Yay!
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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I wanted to try marathon running, but something always came up: I had a baby and a C-section or I got injured or I just didn't think I could run that far.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons.
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Movies are my religion and God is my patron. I'm lucky enough to be in the position where I don't make movies to pay for my pool. When I make a movie, I want it to be everything to me; like I would die for it.
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I've never been a movie buff. If I did go to a theatre to watch a film, half the time, I would fall asleep.
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I always was getting into trouble some way, because I was really good at lying when I was a kid.
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Laurel Canyon is kind of grotesque. It's this nature-themed place, and everybody is kind of angry.
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I don't think I'm exactly gregarious, you know. I'm not usually known as the loud person in the room.
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Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan
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Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.
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“They remained silent, while the bronze tolling passed over their heads so powerfully that they seemed to hear it in the very roots of their hair like a quiver of their flesh.”
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It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.
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It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
