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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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My objection to the death penalty is based on the idea that this is a democracy, and in a democracy the government is me, and if the government kills somebody then I'm killing somebody.
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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.
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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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Me, I'm spiritually retarded, I need to be knee deep in water with a fly rod in my hands, that's about as close to God as I get.
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I love theater. I go all the time. It's one of the reasons I moved to New York. But I understand that I have limited range as an actor. I can only play people who talk like me.
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Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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I was comparatively late in understanding Bob Dylan's overwhelming importance as a songwriter. Everybody who does my job exists in the shadow of Bob Dylan. There are two categories: Dylan and everybody else. It's as simple as that. And it's going to be that way until he dies.
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I mainly read non-fiction, and that's probably because I have a huge amount of insecurity about my lack of education and the things I don't know.
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You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.
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My dad was in a wheelchair and on oxygen for the last few years of his life.
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Songwriters are expanding time rather than compressing time. My short stories tend to be old fashioned, with a beginning, middle and end.
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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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I'm not a Democrat I'm something well to the left of a Democrat, but I'm just realistic about the system.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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