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 don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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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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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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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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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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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 black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.
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I threw my best to every hitter I faced, and I found I had the strength to go all the way.
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At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.
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There is only one person with whom to compete and that is yourself. Keep aiming to surpass your own best performance and ever strive to reach higher levels.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
