Mahershala Ali Quotes

Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

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• I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
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  • Designer
  • Vintage

• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Fun
  • Forever

• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
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• My neighbors think I do nothing because I don't go to a job, which is fine and good.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Good
  • Job
  • Think

• I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Ballet
  • Dancer
  • Fosse

• Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Character

• I love 'Husbands and Wives,' Woody Allen's movie. It's like one of my all-time favorites. I could watch it over and over again.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Love
  • Movie

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Me
  • Feel

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Truth
  • Potential
  • Truth Is

• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Think
  • Always
  • Majority

• Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Make
  • Skill
  • Tight

• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Country
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• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
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• It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Strange
  • Example
  • Setting

• I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Home
  • Think

• The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.

  

  Wang Leehom
  • School
  • Think
  • Style

• I think the beauty of Catholicism is its consistency through both successes and difficulties. I've counted on my faith to give me strength through both training and competition - but also in school, with my family and everyday life.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Life
  • School
  • Family

• I think this is a very good look at how to tackle this effort. The resources and the talent are here, but now we've got to move forward with some sort of direction.

  

  Alvin Williams
  • Talent
  • Direction
  • Resources

• In Canada, you can't even have a barbecue in your backyard without being attacked by a moose or even a grizzly bear. Then again, the grizzlies don't beat anyone here in Vancouver; oh, it's true, it's true.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • True

• Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Women
  • Success
  • Come

• Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • School
  • Respect
  • Special