Top 23 Barkhad Abdi Quotes
#1. A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#2. I would DJ pool parties in Minneapolis, but I never swam there!
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#3. I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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#4. The whole effort of a Jesus or a Buddha or a Bodhidharma is nothing but how to undo that which society has done to you.
Rajneesh
#6. I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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#7. I left Somalia when I was seven years old, but I witnessed a whole year in a war.
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#8. Being in love with someone didn't mean you only loved them during the sunbeams. It meant you stood by their side during the cloudy nights, too. He
Brittainy C. Cherry
#9. There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
David Mamet
#10. The man in the street is always a stranger.
Mason Cooley
#11. What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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#12. For the Lord watches over the way
of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
Anonymous
#13. You can have all you want out of life if you endeavor to help others. If you want to be a powerful and influential leader, then you simply must recognize this absolute fact.
Jim Rohn
#14. When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
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#15. I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.
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#16. A paedophile is someone whose sexual attraction towards children their own age did not grow with them.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#17. I used to play football all the time. In the U.S., people don't play football, so I had to learn basketball. Looking back, that's what I like about my life - doing new things, having a new perspective.
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#18. I was lucky enough to have parents that took me out from country to country and go to school and learn how to be a better person.
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#19. No country in the world looks upon America as a friend. When the U.S. is mentioned, people are reminded of war, aggression and bloodshed, and that's not a good thing. In other words, the American people are paying for something they don't believe in.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
#20. It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.
Woodrow Wilson
#21. I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
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#22. You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity
Helen Mirren
#23. It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
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