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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You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
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I didn't even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, 'How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?' I was like, 'What's she talking about?'
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Profits are one of the most important goals of any successful business, and investors are one of the most important constituencies of public businesses.
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The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
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...NAFTA, signed by her husband, is perhaps the greatest disaster trade deal in the history of the world.
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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.
