Mahershala Ali Quotes
I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.
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I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.
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Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.
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Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.
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Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.
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I use Facebook all the time. I'm not a believer that they're going to do everything on the Internet better than anyone else.
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I saw this documentary he did years ago called 'Fade to Black.' I was always a Jay Z fan - I liked Jay Z - but after I saw that documentary, I loved Jay Z. I realized how intelligent he was.
