Chester Nez Quotes
Quiet! English only!” The dark eyes of a matron bored into me. “English, or you’ll be punished.” I wonder what she said?
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.
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Sauce is certainly ancestral to French cooking. The technique is very tricky, but it's also very fundamental.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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As a child, I had lived many years in Southampton and sang in the choir of the Dune Church.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub.
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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
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My books are all relationship-focused, so much of my inspiration comes from my own relationships and the issues and concerns that arise among my friends and family.
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They've learned on a long car ride, you'd better have a book
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Quiet! English only!” The dark eyes of a matron bored into me. “English, or you’ll be punished.” I wonder what she said?
