Mahershala Ali Quotes
A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.

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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.
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I've always been a massive fan of John Mayer. I think he's very talented.
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It's all about sound. It's that simple. Wireless is wireless, and it's digital. Hopefully somewhere along the line somebody will add more ones to the zeros. When digital first started, I swear I could hear the gap between the ones and the zeros.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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I'm not a good guitar player.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
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Play for Canada? Why not? I have a Canadian passport.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don't anymore. But I still enjoy it - just the physical act and all the - the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.