"My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do backflips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, we put things to the side, and I was able to - I'm able to see her. She's able to see me. We love each other."

-- Mahershala Ali

#Mother Quotes #Years Quotes #Able Quotes

“Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.”
“I think the biggest challenge is to continue on the same path. I think it's easy to become complacent from the success you've had.”
“You always have to give 100%,because if you don't someone, somewhere will give 100% and they will beat you when you meet.”
“Man is truly born the time he dies.”
“In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced an atomic bombing, the vast majority around the world can only vaguely imagine such horror, and these days, John Hersey's Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth are all but forgotten. As predicted by the saying, 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it,' the probability that nuclear weapons will be used and the danger of nuclear war are increasing.”
“I don't ever want to believe my own press clippings, good or bad.”
“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains...”
“Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.”

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