Morris Chestnut Quotes
Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.

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What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
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My children are English, and both of their mothers were English.
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No one needs anything; they have to want it.
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The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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It is by suffering that human beings become angels.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.
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I don't want to follow the herd.
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It's funny, because in drama school, my greatest strength was my range. So my early career was like that: I played all kinds of different characters.
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I'm kind of a 'Fix-It Felix' video girl. I like the simpler, sweeter kind of games.
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Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.
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Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.