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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 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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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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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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Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.
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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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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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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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I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.
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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 feel like I owe my audience something. They feed my kids. And I really like my job, a lot.
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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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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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