Mahershala Ali Quotes
People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.

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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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I'm an emotional person.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I'm doing it because I want to do it. I wanted people to see that you could still be really cute and modest at the same time.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.
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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.
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I'm interested in the way language is used to navigate the world around us.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.