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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.

Steve Earle

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
Actor
Guitarist
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Radio Personality
Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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My audience doesn't agree with me on everything, but I love my audience, because they're totally okay with us having a dialogue.
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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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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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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 still write more songs about girls than anything else.
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If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure.
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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 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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What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.
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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 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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I'm a very disciplined person when it comes to my work, but discipline can't save m from being a drug addict.
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I'm not a racist, but I do have to work at not being a racist, because of where I grew up.
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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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