Mahershala Ali Quotes
For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
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I would like all French children to have unlimited opportunities opened up for them as French minister of education.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.
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The magic of landing my first role on Broadway went 'poof' in a matter of a few weeks.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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I worry that when educational counselors and teachers call in families with concerns about a child having a learning disability, we aren't always looking at the complete picture.
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Actually, when I fought in PRIDE, we had the best fighters in the world. Back then, the UFC had a very serious and big crisis; they were going through some tough times trying to get top fighters. All the best fighters were in PRIDE.
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It's much like playing jazz, flying. It's multitasking in real time. You have a number of instruments that alone won't tell you exactly what the airplane is doing but together give you a picture of everything that's going on.
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I think if I weren't so squeamish, I would have been some sort of forensic analyst. And I can't do anything with a microscope, because then I start thinking about the world of germs around us.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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For my characters, it's important to get really specific about what they listen to. Because it affects how they move in the world.
