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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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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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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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.
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On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.
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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.
