Chester Nez Quotes
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I was noticed by a person from a local model agency, and he proposed that I participate in a beauty contest Miss Chelyabinsk.
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Being outside is a loose theme on 'Paracosm.' Acoustic-sounding instruments have that warmth to them that is really important to communicate. It was really important for me to tell a story – my favorite records have a narrative feel.
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L.A.'s not a good place to grow old.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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There's always a reason not to do anything... to flee the need to make decisions.
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We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
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Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine.
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When we went into the Marine Corps, we didn't know what it was that we were going to do
