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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The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
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I wish I had Wonder Woman's magic lasso like her to make people tell the truth.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.
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Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
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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.
