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Chris Evans Quotes

Our house was like a hotel. It was a loony-tunes household. If you got arrested in high school, everyone knew: 'Call Mrs. Evans; she'll bail you out.'

Chris Evans

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: June 13, 1981

Topics

School High School Hotel You House

I've been playing with this idea in my mind that the hero's journey that we're all taught as screenwriters may resonate more specifically for male protagonists and maybe even male viewers.

Jill Soloway

Journey Hero Mind More Playing May

I think I was scared of the drag thing, as a lot of gay boys are. It's sort of knocked out of you in junior high. I wouldn't find guys who were very feminine attractive. Then, doing 'Hedwig,' I got to be man and woman, really butch and really femme at the same time, and I realized, this is kind of the ideal.

John Cameron Mitchell

Time Woman Man Think Doing You

I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.

Ann Aguirre

Myself Feel Sometimes Cry Write See

Well, marriage doesn't function in the way it used to in terms of deciding our fate, but it's in our heads, and it determines a lot of our actions. Like, right now, if you think about gay marriage - and they just started having the first gay marriages in New York - it shows what a potent idea marriage remains for people.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Marriage New York People Think Fate

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.

Steve Jobs

People Down Boy Ask Sit Older

The Fela Kuti Queens - the band members and wives of the late African musician Fela Anikulapo Kuti - are my fashion icons.

Solange Knowles

Fashion Late Band Musician Members

The scale of revenue growth is unprecedented. If you look back over history, whether you're looking at the railway robber baron era or the 1920s or the '50s or the '70s, it used to take a long time for a company to get to the point where they had tens of millions of dollars of revenue. It was almost never an overnight phenomenon.

Stewart Butterfield

Growth History Time Looking Look

I say some silly things now and again.

Tony Bellew

Silly Now Say Things Again Some

Hollywood and film portray who we are as a people and what we value as a culture.

Tony Cardenas

Culture Value People Hollywood Film

I've always been a bit of a space geek. I wrote an article years ago about the neutral buoyancy tank, which is this biblically sized pool where they train astronauts. And it was just the coolest thing.

Mary Roach

Space Pool Train Always Years Where

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

Delta Burke

Remember You Forgive Still Supposed

As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.

Craig Brown

Life You Lose More Always Little