Morris Chestnut Quotes
Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.
Quotes to Explore
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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 want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.
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I'm more interested in people the way they are than what they've done onscreen before. So I don't worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, 'Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?'
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All of my writing career is about how human beings negotiate dark matter.
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It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.
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Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.
