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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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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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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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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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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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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Fashion is what people tell you to wear. Style is what comes from your own inner thing.
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Good suits don't come from anywhere, though - I mainly wear Armani, Louis Vuitton and Burberry.
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I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.
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They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.
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Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.
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I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.
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I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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We need to take the country in the right direction, whether it is around administrative policy decisions or legislative changes or ensuring the macroeconomic stability.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.
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A lot of the new people they choose on shows like 'American Idol' and things like that - I don't ever hear lead singers. They always seem to choose to pick people that are great singers, fabulous singers, but they've never got the voice that makes a great lead singer.
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On the professional side, I derive great happiness and energy by solving tough business and organisational problems - even taking on tough meetings with customers.
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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.
