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Mekhi Phifer Quotes

In the early '80s, it was hard to find celebrities you can identify with if you lived in the hood. There weren't any rap videos at the time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: December 29, 1974

Topics

Time Hood You Early Find Hard

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

Faith Ignorance Never Complete Read

I think that Ronald Reagan had it right, being against abortion except in certain limited, defined circumstances.

Think Abortion Circumstances Right

The industrialized countries that came to dominate post-slavery have caused the climate to change.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Change Dominate Climate Came Caused

If your son graduates from Harvard, people will regard him as smart and highly qualified for the rest his life and give him access to opportunities. He'll be able to get any job he wants.

Life Son Job Smart People Rest

I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list - however, that may be a bridge too far.

Passion Bridge Wilderness Wish May

Once I was able to take care of myself and my children, I then wanted to share.

Children Myself Care Take Care Share

As an actor, I really like Philip Seymour Hoffman. I think he's a genius.

Think Genius Actor Like He I Think

At the WTO, it's never a general surgery. It's always a very specific, clinical, precise surgery - and you can't miss the target. If you miss the target, you kill the patient. It's as simple as that.

Roberto Azevedo

Simple You Target Never Always Miss

It took me forever, learning improvisation, because I had studied with Lee Strasberg - I dropped out of Chicago and went to his classes in New York for a couple of years, once or twice a week. What I didn't realize was I was learning directing because he wasn't all that good about acting, not for me.

Learning Good New York Me Acting

I think my imagination about jobs was pretty limited. There were so few jobs that I actually saw people who looked like me in, that I imagined myself in, that I think I just stopped imagining.

Myself Imagination People Me Think

The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron.

Funny Time Day Iron Got Steam

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to the novels of Edith Wharton, among others, where social dynamics are crucial. Wharton's class consciousness fascinates me, and some of the tension in my books stems from that.

Me Place Class Others Always Social

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