Bart Chilton Quotes

There's not many people that I can't relate to and can't share experiences with.

There's been so much that I've shared with the world, and by doing so, it's helped me connect with others on a whole new level. I love that, as I want people to watch 'Total Divas' and be able to relate themselves to what we go through. My hopes are that they realize we are all in this 'thing called life' together.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

When a novelist manages to describe or evoke something you thought or felt, without realizing that other people also found themselves in the same situation and had the same feelings, it creates that same solidarity. Maybe it's better to think of humor not as a tool to express the solidarity, but a kind of by-product. Maybe the realization "I'm not on my own on this one" is always, or often, funny.

It is easier to speak to those who have had similar experiences than to those who are as yet ignorant.

The Big Chill is one of those things that everybody can identify with. Between eight characters, they can pick somebody who's somewhat like them.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

Anybody can relate to anyone on 'Glee' at some point in their life.

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

Probably above all other things, I am interested as a writer in making a connection, interested in the parts of all of us that connect.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

When you are in someone's home, in their bed, you see the world from their eyes. You understand 'the other' is not so other.

It's cool to be able to relate to people who aren't necessarily from the same way of life as me or don't even maybe know what I'm talking about in some of my songs. It's just cool that music has that ability to do that.

You can relate to someone with a flaw.

I want someone to look at me and find a little of themselves in me.

I don't want to bore people with things that don't matter to them. I want to share parts of my life that are universally true with other people.

Any relationship, I'm talking about even with your kids, when you got something they can relate to - both of y'all - it helps.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

A lot of people can relate to me.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

...[W]ords can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.

I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.

I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated with whatever is wrong with the culture.