Mahershala Ali Quotes
If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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The real challenge that we face in our communications with others is to condition our hearts to have Christlike feelings for all of Heavenly Father's children. When we develop this concern for the condition of others, we then will communicate with them as the Savior would.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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It's very important to me that people who are actual chefs and other professionals in the culinary world, understand that I'm not, and have never held myself out as being, like a CIA trained chef.
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Before 'Gremlins,' I was a normal person, then within two weeks of the movie coming out, I couldn't walk into a store without people turning around and staring. It's exciting and also scary because everyone starts telling you how amazing you are.
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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I think probably the thing I'm worst at is the most ephemeral stuff, like blogs. I find it really hard to write. And I'm often been asked to write columns for papers in Peru. And I can't. I would die. There's no way I could write a column.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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I used my mind, and then eventually the method I used allowed me to master my craft.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
