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“I never understood whether the word 'amnesty' is correct or not. Maybe I am not very intelligent but I checked the dictionary to find the meaning.”
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“I don't train to absorb the pain, I train to break the pain.”
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“I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time.”
Source : "Exclusive: Kurt Vile on the Paranoia and Process Behind His New Record". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. July 21, 2015.
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“Rohan, one of us is an unmarried man with superior mathematical abilities and no prospects for the evening. The other is a confirmed lecher in an amorous mood, with a willing and nubile young wife waiting at home. Who do you think should do the damned account books?" And, with a nonchalant wave, St. Vincent had left the office.”
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“Unfortunately, the average guy on the street believes that studying evolution leads to atheism.”
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“I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.”
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“America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”
Source : Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.176, Simon and Schuster
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“I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you have the right person with you, there are all these little worlds that you would never guess by just looking at the exterior of what the city is.”