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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I was a Girl Scout!
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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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If everything in the environment is utterly predictable, you become bored. If it's utterly unpredictable, you become frustrated.
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No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.
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In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind - in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
