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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
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I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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By the time I wrote those first three songs for his new CD ... I wanted to push the poetics as hard as I could push them, and not decide the songs were finished until I committed them to whatever the recording format was. I went through drafts right up until I recorded every single one of them.
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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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I'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
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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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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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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I do not believe Tony Blair was a fundamentally good man who went bad. I believe he was evil in the first place.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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'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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Greg Trooper writes great songs, including one of my very favorite songs in the world, Little Sister. On top of all that, there's his voice - an instrument I have coveted for 15 years.
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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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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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The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers it's people from all over the world.
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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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