Chevy Stevens Quotes
For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
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It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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There is something very utopian about what I do. But utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
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For the most part, people don't know who I am.
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The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
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Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me She could not leave her number, but I know who placed the call 'Cause my uncle took the message and he wrote it on the wall
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The viewer must bring their own view to a photograph.
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I always say the more problems you have, the more opportunities you have.
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For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.
