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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Peace Activist
Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Fort Monroe National Monument
Stephen Fain Earle
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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 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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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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I don't think I'm a political songwriter as much as I am just a political person. I think it's in my fabric.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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I just had a child on purpose at age 56, I'm pretty f---ing optimistic.
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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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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'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 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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I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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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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Like most kids, I grew up singing 'This Land Is Your Land' in grammar school, but with the most radical verses neatly removed. This was before I knew it was a Woody Guthrie song.
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I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.
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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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