Morris Chestnut Quotes
I would advice to focus on your craft. Nowadays, a lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.
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No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
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Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
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My experiences in the military, the private sector, and as a congressional staffer were at times almost enough to drive me crazy. Writing offered the all-too-often-cited creative outlet.
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When Dad died in 1998, it really hit my confidence - he'd helped me write and he thought I was really funny, but since he'd died I didn't feel right. And it felt like no one but me even remembered him.
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So I learned another system: When in doubt, keep it out – out of earshot, out of the house – even if this meant, really, just keeping it in.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us
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Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.
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I would advice to focus on your craft. Nowadays, a lot of people come to quote-unquote Hollywood thinking that all they just have to be different or do something outlandish or have a huge personality to become a star. But I think that if you just focus on the craft, you'll have a better chance at longevity.
