Chris Stapleton Quotes
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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As a writer, I was shaped by a desire to write for black people. That things were not being represented. That was my motivating force. That it has become what it has become is shocking to me. I just wanted to be able to take care of my kids.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
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Ballplayers, like everyone else, like to get told they did something right.
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People see you sing in a certain way, in a long dress, and you are put on a pedestal like you have never made a mistake in your life.
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It's about labeling. For me feminism is bra-burning lesbianism. It's very unglamorous. I'd like to see it rebranded. We need to see a celebration of our femininity and softness.
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I don't think country music needs saving from anything.
