Mekhi Phifer Quotes
When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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We must strive to become good ancestors.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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I did always think of Heinlein as a strict rationalist, although a dispassionate examination of his works doesn't support that.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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Find fault with thyself rather than with others.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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A woman in show business isn't honest with herself... so how can she be honest with another woman? We are, all of us, acting every minute of the day and night.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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There is no accountability in soft money. None.
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Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.
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I never intended on moving to 'The Good Wife' permanently, but in terms of a next move and something to do to make myself feel good, this was a great opportunity.
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Everything I've done until 'The Jeffersons' - the plays, the movies, the soap operas - were all in New York.
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Nationally, the share of mortgages that are underwater fell by about one-half between 2011 and 2014.
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When you're working and making money, that's all good, but there has to be something that provides a substance, I think.
