Ahmed Best Quotes

We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

Ahmed Best

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

  Mamie Van Doren
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Star

• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Often

• I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Different
  • Think
  • Fighting

• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Done
  • Successful

• There's nothing unnatural in creation.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Nothing
  • Creation
  • Unnatural

• There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

  

  Xenophon
  • May
  • Small
  • Best

• If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Love
  • Care
  • Him

• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Real
  • Strange
  • Be Real

• I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • College
  • Years
  • Gone

• Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Community
  • Value
  • Moment

• A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Reading
  • Mystery

• Love is a credulous thing.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• It's nice not to have to live a double life.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nice

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

  

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
  • Imagination
  • Human
  • Kindness

• You've got to be able to take the bad events with the good ones. You've got to learn to deal with them and learn to take as much as you can from those. Have fun and put as much as you can into it. As long as you've done your best, that's all you can do.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Good
  • Long
  • Done

• Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.

  

  Jamie Hince
  • People
  • Music
  • Death

• I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

  

  Donny Osmond
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.

  

  Phillips Brooks
  • Music
  • Heart
  • Soul

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• Losing sucks but I look at more what I gained as an individual, as an athlete..sometimes in losing you learn a lot.

  

  Uriah Hall
  • Athlete

• We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.

  

  Ahmed Best
  • Music
  • Art