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Mahershala Ali Quotes

I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Window Thought Doing Play Want Been

I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.

Book Year Say Write Month Would

Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.

Opinion Find Begin Dissent Who Soon

Iran is a nation with American blood on its hands.

American Hands Blood Nation Iran

I don't think I would participate in 'Eurovision,' but I would love to write a song for it. But it would have to be for Norway, obviously. Do it for my country.

Love Song Think Country Write Would

Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a concept. There's no overriding theme I'm trying to represent. It's all about the individual songs.

Looking Connections Trying Theme

I am healthy. I have been blessed with a very good body, and I have worked hard at it. I had surgery on my toe, and I'm still recovering from that. That's the only joint that was hurting. Earlier, I had a knee replacement, hip replacement, shoulder surgeries, but I have been lucky. I don't feel any pain when I play.

Martina Navratilova

Good Pain I Am Blessed Feel Body

I remember seeing 'Dead Poet's Society,' and it made it appealing in a way that I actually went to prep school.

School Society Remember Seeing Way

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

Learning Listening Learn You Stop

Before you can trust your team to make decisions better than you would have, you need to build their capability to connect the dots.

Trust Team Better Decisions You

My background with acting is deeply interwoven with my family life and my childhood. It's a 'Peter Pan'-like narrative, something that was golden but could also be a bit dubious.

Life Family Childhood Acting Golden

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

Storytelling Difficult Same Complex

When I was seven, I had to stay home for several weeks because of some ailment, whereupon my father elected to teach me so that I should not fall behind. In fact, he taught me in three months as much as the school taught in two years, so, on returning to school, I was shifted from grade 4 to grade 6.

Father Home School Me Fall Three

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