"I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act."

-- Morris Chestnut

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“There have always been gangland-type areas in Nottingham - but what's really hit me hard is kids as young as eight are now carrying knives to school. That was something I never saw when I was growing up. The police and families have got a responsibility. These young people are feeling trapped. They don't even have somewhere to go to just have fun.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“It is only when you open your veins and bleed onto the page a little that you establish contact with your reader. If you do not believe in the characters or the story you are doing at that moment with all your mind, strength, and will, if you don't feel joy and excitement while writing it, then you're wasting good white paper, even if it sells, because there are other ways in which a writer can bring in the rent money besides writing bad or phony stories.”

Source : Paul Gallico (1946). “Confessions of a Story Writer”, New York, A. A. Knopf
“Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.”
“I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.”
“Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.”
“To get to play a bad person and do bad things in a safe environment like 'Arrow' was pretty amazing.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.”

Source : Frank E. Peretti (2011). “The Oath”, p.9, Thomas Nelson Inc
“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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