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I have a theory that the people who cook in jails are British chefs.

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Steve Earle
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: January 17
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There's a long tradition of people from the South living in New York City.
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If I can get Me out of the way, I can do anything.
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You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.
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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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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 think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.
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I had everything I need to get me killed.
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