Mekhi Phifer Quotes
If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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The virtues of the blockchain is that it would be that it's peer-to-peer settlement - no centralized settlement, no manipulation... And most importantly, there's nothing to capture. It's consensus based. It's stateless.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Chipotles, which are dried jalapeno peppers, give out a terrific smoky flavour - they're warm, earthy and usually not too spicy.
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I like things simple.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.
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Humanity has understood nothing.
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If you go into something saying, 'I'm the bad guy,' you do yourself a disservice as an actor. It's always about trying to find the humanity in a character.
