Chevy Stevens Quotes

It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.

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• Conforming is not cool.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.

  

  Barbara Palvin
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• I'm always trying to find 'connections' between things. That art is the juxtaposition of a lot of things that seem unrelated but add up to something recognizable.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire world.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • World
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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
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• I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Money
  • Job
  • Always

• Award shows, like the Grammys, were tough on us early in hip-hop, not even televising our categories or splitting them up on best male or female or any of that. We had to earn them.

  

  Queen Latifah
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• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
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• I grew up in a house my parents built together on a mountain in Tennessee. When we moved in, the walls were still going up, we didn't have hot water, and we turned it into an amazing adventure.

  

  Rachel Boston
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  • Together
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• We travel a lot from Australia and deliberately route ourselves through the U.A.E. because my whole family loves the place.

  

  Fiona McIntosh
  • Family
  • Travel
  • Australia

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
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  • Writing
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• What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

  

  A. A. Milne
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  • Potatoes

• Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

  

  Gale Sayers
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• It was the best job I ever had. I just left because my whole team was leaving and the new guys were coming.

  

  Victoria Jackson
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• I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

  

  Karen Robards
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  • Time
  • Myself

• In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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  • Feelings
  • Brother

• I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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  • Long

• My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Job

• During the worst days of apartheid, we turned to the church for hope and courage as we fought a righteous struggle for a democratic, non-racial, non-sexist, just, and prosperous South Africa.

  

  Cyril Ramaphosa
  • Hope
  • Church
  • Struggle

• There's a point at which we make our lives, but we also take the path which is given to us.

  

  Ali Smith
  • Path

• Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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  • Mind
  • Real

• It's not like I wake up every morning and just can't wait to write. It is my job. It's much easier to not write. I'd rather read. This is my income. This is what supports my family. Having a child is a pretty big incentive to keep working.

  

  Chevy Stevens
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