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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have the most supportive parents and family in the entire 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.
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I never was happy with the job I did in 'Ed Wood.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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While growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, I dreamed of becoming many things: an archaeologist, an ambassador, an actor, an author.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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I definitely have managed to overcome dyslexia now to become a fully functional human being but things were a lot more difficult when I was younger.
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When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.
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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.
