Steven Curtis Chapman Quotes
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
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This is my journey. If I fall, I have to pick myself up. If I'm not getting the playing time I want, it's up to me to figure out why.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I won't be in gay parades - I don't think they need them. I believe in class - I believe that people should have a bit of class about them.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anything, but I didn't know what direction to go in.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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I definitely want to come back to Cleveland. The coaches, the team, everything about the situation, it's perfect for me.
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I buy way too many books.
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I just think that all of us in this room should have a voice in how the USA is represented. And he don't allow us our voice, that's all I'm saying.
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My life is exactly the way it needs to be.
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I don't think I've ever been haunted by a ghost, but I always joke with my fiance about the house we're living in right now. It seems to have something in it.
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When you're in a rehearsal room, it's like getting into a car and going on a long journey with everyone's stuff in the back. If you keep stopping the car and going, 'Are you sure we want to go?' and think, 'This is really daunting,' you will get frightened, so you just have to keep ploughing through it.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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Directing is: you're overwhelmed the whole time. Your mind never stops. If you care about it. You wake up in the morning and you begin thinking about it and then you go to sleep at night and you're still thinking about it.
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I grew up fundamentalist, evangelical, Protestant. Those are my roots, and they are good roots. But it means the Pharisees are my people. I grew up with an image of God that was not helpful -- largely the face of my father expanded.
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I'm not particularly political. I'm not particularly denominational. I'm not worried about any of that.
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I'm either shooting nine grams of coke a day or spending two hours at the gym. There's no middle ground.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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Lauryn Hill, P-Funk, Marvin Gaye, Public Enemy - I have a very diverse palate for music. I can go from Judy Garland to Jimi Hendrix to Stevie Wonder to Rachmaninoff. I just love great music.
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That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music.
