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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.
Steve Earle
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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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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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We're Americans. I don't consider us to be evil, I just don't think we know any better. We're a really young culture. We're hillbillies, and the rest of the world sees us that way. I travel all over the world, and probably the only worse rednecks than us are the Australians. And they're an even younger country.
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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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