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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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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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Singer-Songwriter
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I don't type fast. I type with three fingers - two on one hand, and I only get one going on the other. I think my thumb's in there, but I'm not sure. I may be no better than an orangutan when it comes to that.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.
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I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.
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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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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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What saves me from being a drug addict is sort of the opposite. It's me realizing that I don't really control anything.
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San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.
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The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the '30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.
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The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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 wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
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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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