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.

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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.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Black

• I'm not in a position to go back into public service.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Service
  • Public Service

• 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.

  

  Otto Dix
  • Time
  • Art
  • Effort

• 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.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Up
  • Done
  • Today

• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • City
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  LaToya London
  • People
  • Good
  • Picture

• 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.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Politics

• 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.'

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Bad
  • Want
  • End

• 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.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Enjoy

• 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.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Engagement

• 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.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • World
  • Truth
  • Utopia

• 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!

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • People
  • Good
  • Evil

• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Famous

• Micing it from two different angles in front of the speaker sounds huge, and it's so simple.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Different
  • Simple
  • Two

• I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Life
  • Help
  • Decision

• Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsAnd some are treasured for their markings –They cause the eyes to meltOr the body to shriek without pain.

  

  Craig Raine
  • Eyes
  • Pain

• The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

  

  John Prescott
  • Green
  • Achievement

• It’s not about creating an equal country, but it is about stopping the development of an underclass cut off from the rest of society. This focus could be a straight forward set of things like a living wage, supporting more effective pathways into work and an effective benefits system.

  

  Jo Cox
  • Work
  • Country
  • Society

• When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don't stand still and look around On all the hills I haven't hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friend

• When you expand your ability to see, you understand that there are a lot of false choices being offered.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Choices

• For 'Never Knowing,' I outlined it and then blocked it out on my office wall with index cards, but things still happened organically.

  

  Chevy Stevens
  • Wall