Mahershala Ali Quotes
I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
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To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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Children don't really understand the concept of health. You can't give them an apple and say 'if you eat this you will be healthy when you're older' because they don't understand. You have to find a different way to motivate them.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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There is inspiration all around us.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.
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In '87, I used to do this awful, awful James Brown impression.
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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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Sneakers are not my thing.
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When I had challenges, it taught me to be more on top of it for the future. Things go wrong all the time when you're running your own business, but it's how you perceive it and deal with it that matters.
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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
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I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.
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If the Americans have Superman, we have Panday.
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If you can't be a populist in Arkansas, you ain't going to be a populist in Washington.
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I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.
