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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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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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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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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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It's incredibly irresponsible to allow victims' family members to witness executions.
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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'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 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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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've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.
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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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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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Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.
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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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Having a child at 55... that's optimism.
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Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.
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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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Politics has always been in my music. Anybody who doesn't understand how political Copperhead Road is isn't listening very well.
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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