Isaiah Mustafa (Isaiah Amir Mustafa) Quotes
Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.
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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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I always like to tell a story.
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Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.
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Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.
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In an environment where you've got to push innovations out the door fast and keep the cost of innovation low, the probability that you'll be successful is actually much higher.
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I love looking at the old Bond films. Maybe it's purely out of reminiscence, the nostalgic things you think about. But there were some very good films made, and I think that the public has enjoyed them, too.
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Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee. -Jonathan
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We should look back now and then. Our politicians should look back every now and then.
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To be human is to be visible.
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In college, I didn't perform so much, but when I graduated is when I discovered Second City. Then I realized, 'Oh, there are people who can focus on comedy and especially improvisational comedy and make a career out of it.'
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I still don't really know what my style is. I like a lot of different kinds of comedy, I like watching it and I like being inventive and original. That's the problem with doing a longer set - you can't do every joke that you have because some stuff contradicts other stuff. Even when you know that the audience knows that you're joking and it's not true, you still can't do a joke about your family dying and then later talk about your Mom. I mean you want to keep some kind of cohesive order going.
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Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.
