Isaiah Mustafa (Isaiah Amir Mustafa) Quotes
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I believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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I know that one of the distinguishing things was I looked like I could hold a gun, even though I'd never held one before and I'm physically able to do the martial arts and all that stuff.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.
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I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't make the right choice, it actually puts marks not just on their souls but also their bodies. That means that you can visualize existential questions.
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You can't play having a mental disability. You have to play whatever that person's truth is without any judgement.
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I don't attend costume parties.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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You never know what can happen in football. It's football.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
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Being on a Paul Thomas Anderson film, the best decision an actor can make is to listen to Paul Thomas Anderson. Because he's probably not going to steer anyone in the wrong direction. I would always say go with your gut on any other movie set, but with Paul, I would say go with Paul's gut.
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I don't know how people box for a living. I don't know how they can just hurt people for a living and be OK with it.
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All the instruments of percussion known to European science are essentially nonmusical and can only be tolerated in open air music or in large orchestras where a little noise more or less makes no difference.
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I've always liked to dress up; I've always liked to look good. You look good, you feel good, you play good.
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If success in selling is my primary interest, I am not primarily a writer, but a salesperson. If I teach success in selling as the writer's primary objective, I am not teaching writing; I'm teaching, or pretending to teach, the production and marketing of a commodity.
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The way I choose projects is based on what I think is most real and most interesting, not on what’s paying the most money or what’s most popular.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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I don't sit down and have meals too often, unless I go out for dinner.
