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.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Remember
  • Everything

• All of life is a foreign country.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • Country
  • Life Is A

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Moral
  • Rich
  • Instincts

• Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Country
  • Question

• The best are the ones built without controversy, when the owner, the architect, and the builder work together.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Work
  • Together
  • Best

• I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Drama
  • Laugh

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Development

• 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.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Believe
  • Experience
  • Book

• 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.

  

  Irvin Kershner
  • Love
  • Feelings
  • Dreams

• I always like to tell a story.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Like
  • Always
  • Story

• 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.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Man
  • Science

• Beauty is a fading flower, Truth is but a wizard's tower, Where a solemn death-bell tolls, And a forest round it rolls.

  

  Alfred Noyes
  • Truth
  • Death
  • Flower

• 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.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Environment
  • Door
  • Innovation

• Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.

  

  Pauline Trigere
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Style

• Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Good

• I didn't know anybody in show business, and I never thought it was the path I'd go down. I was hoping it was sports, like so many kids.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Sports

• Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.

  

  Astro Teller
  • Up
  • Humanity

• When I was younger, I'd make a point of driving to the middle of nowhere and spending an evening with just me, the wind, and the moon. Your skin crawls up an octave. This is what I tap into when I'm working on horror films. I'm just afraid a time will come when I lose touch with that part of myself.

  

  Christopher Young
  • Up
  • Time
  • Wind

• I always stayed away from political commentary. First of all, I didn't feel entitled. What I may feel about a candidate, I'm a comedian. I mean, if people like my comedy, that doesn't mean they should vote for the person I like. That's why I always kind of stayed away from endorsements.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • People
  • Why
  • May

• Stand-up comedy is not a man's job. It's an alpha job: To be the only person in a room with a microphone who's allowed to talk.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Up
  • Job
  • Comedy

• Listen, I'm a big fan of everything on NBC. When I think of comedy on TV, I really think of NBC.

  

  Isaiah Mustafa
  • Comedy
  • Fan
  • NBC