Kareem Mortimer Quotes
Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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Writing is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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I wasn't really the most charming person, socially – it took me a long time to develop my people skills – but the one place I was always comfortable was onstage, acting or singing.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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I have no problem whatsoever with allowing gay people to live as they please, as long as they don't try to impose their lifestyle on everyone else.
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I believe that the American audience is not so dumb that they wouldn't be interested in a black story.
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Documentaries were necessary for my growth as a person. I grew up very sheltered and it was a form of expressing myself.
