Mahershala Ali Quotes

If you're throwing someone off a roof, you're throwing them off the roof. It's there. You don't have to do anything extra with that. The audience is obviously going to react to that because it's such a heightened thing to do. But in the other moments, you really look for ways to craft those, because they're more important, honestly.

Mahershala Ali

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1974

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I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

Jewel

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I'm an independent fashion house.

Matthew Williamson

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Is it 'a drag' that passions don't come to us all at once, as epiphanies, without the need to actively develop them? Maybe. But the reality is that our early interests are fragile, vaguely defined, and in need of energetic, years-long cultivation and refinement.

Angela Duckworth

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More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

Andy Serkis

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I'm loving saying 'I'm not a big movie star, but I play one on television.'

Johnathon Schaech

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I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters.

Sidney Poitier

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Peter, of the three of us, was our prince. He seemed so timeless. He had such elan and style.

Tom Brokaw

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Restrictions on mobility will be removed as cars become driverless. We'll be chauffeured, basically.

Michio Kaku

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Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

Josh Gad

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My uncle is in the hall of fame for creating by hand some of the most intricate Indian Mardi Gras garb.

Dawn Richard

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The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind.

Christian Lous Lange

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I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

Cindy Crawford

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