Mahershala Ali Quotes
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Experience is a funny thing. You don't always have it when you need it.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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Every Christmas Eve, the elves will come and give us a new pair of pajamas.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Baseball is not a lot of statistics to me. It's blood and tears.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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Our culture is so celebrity-obsessed that for individuals to show they matter, they need to display their intimacy to fame.
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The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
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I loved Vincent and he loved me in the abiding way most couples in good marriages love each other, that way in which every once in a while there is a longing for someone you haven't yet met. A longing that comes upon you while you are loading the dishwasher or weeding the garden or sitting in front of the television or turning out the light to go to sleep, and you don't even know what it is, this longing, and you think maybe you're in need of a vacation or maybe you are dying because the ache of it hurts so fucking much…That ache, it went away when I met Henry; it went away as if it had been a headache instead of located nowhere precisely. Its not that I wanted to fall in love with Henry, but I did just the same because you can't keep from falling in love any more than you can keep snow from falling from the sky in winter. Gravity is gravity.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
