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I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
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Peace Activist
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Record Producer
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Singer-Songwriter
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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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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'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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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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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'm from Texas. I hitchhiked to Tennessee when I was 19 years old, and it is really beautiful in Tennessee.
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You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
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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 don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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I feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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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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