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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Claiming to 'fight for small business' is often used as a political tool in Washington D.C., but it is actually the policies behind that battle cry that small firms care about.
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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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I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.
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I'm getting closer...
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
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When we went into the Marine Corps, we didn't know what it was that we were going to do
