Mahershala Ali Quotes
The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in.
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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I was unbelievably lucky.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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I rarely cook traditional risotto, but I love other grains cooked similarly - barley, spelt or split wheat. I find they have more character than rice and absorb other flavours more wholeheartedly.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort - the intense self-conscious effort - to make a literary movement were still evident. Now we lived a life as writers that was more cosmopolitan, more open, that had more travel and exchange.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
