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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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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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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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.
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You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
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After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful.
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He didn’t know who she was, but she was too crazy to be holding anything in a test tube.
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Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything, and when they grow older they know it.
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We're all human beings. And we all have our prejudices and so forth, but the thing is, let's be tolerant with each other. And if we could do that, there would be a lot more peace in our world today.
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When we went into the Marine Corps, we didn't know what it was that we were going to do
