Ahmed Best Quotes
We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
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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.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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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.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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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.
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If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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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.
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Love is a credulous thing.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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It's nice not to have to live a double life.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
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'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.
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Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again.
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We like to think of film and music as art, but actually art is something that is not restricted.
