Mekhi Phifer Quotes
I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I don't want to talk about negative, dark things. The only thing I've got against stuff like Marilyn Manson is, they make unbelievable videos and unbelievable images.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Time stays, we go.
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The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I've had a dozen novels published and have made far more than a dozen mistakes. Which is why Randy Susan Meyers and I wrote a guidebook to help authors avoid making our mistakes.
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In high school, the fastest I ever ran was like a 4.67; that's pretty fast. But then, I only weighed 168 pounds.
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The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Kindness eases change.
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I'm really good at pretending.
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We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.
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I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world.
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I think, in any artist's mind, you can't just be into yourself. You have to look at the world in an objective view.
