Mahershala Ali Quotes

Basketball wasn't going particularly well, but in my senior year, I did a play and got a wonderful card from a professor that said, 'I don't know what your plans are after school or if acting is a part of it, but you have something special.' Hearing that from someone who I had so much respect for pointed me in that direction.

Mahershala Ali

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Author Biography

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

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I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'

Jim Rash

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I think that novels are tools of thought. They are moral philosophy with the theory left out, with just the examples of the moral situations left standing.

Jill Paton Walsh

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Things happen to all of us. The writer's job is to get you interested.

Max Apple

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I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.

Amanda Marshall

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I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better.

Tony Goldwyn

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With Iran, we negotiated privately in 2012-2013 from a position of strength, not a position of weakness. The secret negotiations in Oman. This ultimately led to the Joint Plan of Action of November 2013.

Tom Cotton

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The Keystone pipeline is one of those things that's sort of a political driver. And mostly, the Republicans use it to sort of embarrass the president and embarrass quite a few Democrats who feel that there's a potential for an environmental disaster.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

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Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Robert Toombs

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I write to make some sense of things that confuse me. The mechanics of my own heart are the most confusing I know about - and don't know about - and other people's are a bit confusing, too.

Mary Gauthier

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I was a purist bore.

Michael Parkinson

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My younger sister retired a few years ago after a 30-year career teaching history and social studies at an inner-city high school.

Judy Woodruff

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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.

Christopher McQuarrie

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