Chord Overstreet Quotes
I learned so much watching my dad write songs and perform in front of thousands of people, and people were singing along to songs that I watched him write; it stuck with me.
 
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	If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.   
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	Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.   
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	The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.   
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	In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.   
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	I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.   
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	I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.   
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	I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.   
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	When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.   
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	I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.   
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	It's actually harder to write a fun song.   
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	I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.   
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	I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.   
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	The gratification of desire is not happiness.   
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	You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'   
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	At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.   
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	If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.   
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	Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.   
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	That's the mantra I use when the team tells me something is too complicated. People keep saying, 'We need more prioritization.' I say, 'Guys, what you want is less work. And that is not going to happen.'   
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	'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.   
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	There is such thing as a 'smart bomb' - bombs are smart these days, you know.   
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	Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!   
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	When I came back from my first TED, very few people knew what it was. But around the time I was sitting down to write 'Where'd You Go, Bernadette,' in 2010, TED was exploding.   
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	I learned so much watching my dad write songs and perform in front of thousands of people, and people were singing along to songs that I watched him write; it stuck with me.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					