Mahershala Ali Quotes
I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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I am only a dog lover, and I have a nice fawn-colored one at home.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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I love to write.
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The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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I don't want to say I'll never play someone with a cockney accent, but I think I would be irritated by me doing it.
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If a queen bee were crossed with a Friesian bull, would not the land flow with milk and honey?
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This nation is being divided into black and white, and the present system encourages this.
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'Roots' did show that the audience would be receptive to black talent and a black story.
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I'd never been around or seen a black showrunner, and in some ways you wish that it wasn't a big deal.
