Charles W. Chesnutt Quotes
Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
Quotes to Explore
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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'Family Ties' was a very successful situation comedy. And, in almost every respect, it functioned on a day to day basis like a well-run, well conditioned basketball team. The show was performed live each week in front of a studio audience on Friday night.
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Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
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Playing this game, you cannot have nothing holding you back. If you're thinking, you're wrong automatically.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.
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I don't ever wish I was somebody else.
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I think we respond well when we do something well.
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By now, it seems as if everyone has already read Thomas L. Friedman's 'The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.' It changed the way we think about global business, competitiveness and the implication for far-flung economies, governments, education and more.
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Be fluid. Treat each project differently. Be water, man. The best style is no style. Because styles can be figured out. And when you have no style they can't figure you out.
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Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.
