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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
Actor
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Fort Monroe National Monument
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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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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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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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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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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 have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.
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Maybe I'm not as big a star as Bruce Springsteen because I'm not as good. I don't know. It doesn't matter. I still have an audience of a certain size. I think it's one of the things I'm luckiest.
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Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.
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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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I wasn't raised to not write about issues, and I'm just living in really politically charged times. You know, I'd rather write songs about girls, but it's just hard to do right now.
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Bob Dylan emerged from nowhere, like an alien. And that was just the start.
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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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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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Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.
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