Morris Chestnut Quotes
You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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L.A. really doesn't feel like home to me anymore.
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You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
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It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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I feel like I've forcefully been thrust into the tech world, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
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I'm one of the best condensers in the business.
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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
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I'm lucky enough to be able to make only movies I'm interested in seeing. That has to be an instinctive thrust. The audience knows when you're faking it. They can hang any kind of moniker they want on me.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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The one word I hear when people have affairs is that they feel alive. They don't talk about the fact they're having sex. They feel like they are engaged with their life. They describe an experience that beats back the deadness inside, which isn't the fault of the marriage or the partner. It's often the deadness that they have allowed to creep in for years on their own. But by definition, it's a transgressive act. And transgression is a breaking of the rules. And it gives you a sense of ownership and freedom. And ownership and freedom gives you a feeling of aliveness. It's a chain.
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I don't do my hair very perfectly because I think it looks sexier when you don't have everything perfectly structured out.
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Not a day goes by where I'm not reminded of Gollum by some person in the street who asks me to do his voice or wants to talk to me about him. But because 'The Hobbit' has been talked about as a project for many years, I knew that at some point I'd have to reengage with him.
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You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
