Chord Overstreet Quotes
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Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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My parents never talked to me like I was a kid. Maybe that's why I've been seen as mature.
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.
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I wanted to live in the suburbs and have a white picket fence and my own bedroom. And a staircase - I thought having a staircase meant that you were a normal family. I thought somehow if you could transplant us to the suburbs, we would become a normal family. But in retrospect, I'm so grateful I grew up in the Chelsea.
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All my adult life, if I didn't have several hours a day to sit in a room by myself, I would get antsy and irritable.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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The idea was always to be an actor.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
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I have the legacy of my father and his nocturnal automatic waking up. But I like those periods. I immediately have a different vision of humanity and my life.
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I think Robbie Lawler is a good name and a fight that interests me.
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There are libertarian conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and social conservatives. I feel conservative in terms of limited government, individual responsibility, self-sufficiency - that sort of thing.
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I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am outside, I am going to have my ears covered up.
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For many child soldiers, war and violence are all they have ever known. If we don't take it upon ourselves to show them an alternative, then they're going to be soldiers forever, and they'll continue to be recruited and to participate in violence if another conflict starts five or 10 years down the road.
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I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.
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The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do for himself.
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Then I grew up and fell in love, I asked my sweetheart, 'what lies ahead?
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I think that a lot of terrorists have been middle class and, more surprisingly, many of them have been people who were not directly affected by the things they're angry about.
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The very word 'sorrow' colours the fact of sorrow, the pain of it.
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I love Matt Bomer.
