When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence.
Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough.
When people put labels on us, it doesn't always enclose everything that we are. So even though I'm proud to be Somali, I'm proud to be American, at the end of the day, I'm still Halima, and I take things from both sides and combine them, and I make my own little category. I'm me!
I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.
The future is always coming up with surprises for us, and the best way to insulate yourself from these surprises is to diversify.
I always identified with that feeling of being an underdog. So I always was looking to connect with and meet people from other cultures, to experience people living a different life that I am.
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.
Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in.
I wanted to be at my sister's funeral, but my family has always had a complicated dynamic.
Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.
Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.
Poetry has always been made to seem kind of cultish. But the truth is, everybody really loves it! It's much more mainstream than anyone thought.
To those who believe but wish their belief to be strengthened, I urge you to walk in faith and trust in God. Spiritual knowledge always requires an exercise of faith.
I was a huge Mike Tyson fan growing up; his fights were always on in my house.
I am never more or less motivated for a fight - it's always the same.
Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.
Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make.
I've always been sort of addicted to genre-jumping. I've never been in the mood to do the same thing I did last time. Hence, me going from 'Big Love' to romantic comedy, to period film... I can't sit still.
I always saw being in a band a full time job.
I must admit I like to muck around a bit; I always have.
Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.
I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.
I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.
I've always felt more at home in the UK than in France.
I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help.
In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
I learned from everybody whose staff I was on. You always learn something.
You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality.
As a jumper, I try to defy gravity as long as I can. But no matter how far I jump, I'll always hit the earth eventually.
Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot.
