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There's always, there'll always be, more story. That's what story is.


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LAILA ALI I like to play by my own rules.
LAILA ALI My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated...
LAILA ALI You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
LAILA ALI While I was boxing professionally, I never thought about my looks. The furthest thing from my mind w...
LAILA ALI I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and ma...
LAILA ALI I saw women's boxing on television for the first time when I was 18, and that's when I wante...
LAILA ALI I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
LAILA ALI There's this Method Man album called 'Tical.' It's his first album. I would just lis...
MAHERSHALA ALI My friends in college, several of whom are still my closest companions, would tell you that I was al...
MAHERSHALA ALI I think Don Cheadle has always done great work.
MAHERSHALA ALI People do bad things, but that doesn't mean they don't have other colors or qualities.
MAHERSHALA ALI In my humble opinion, the ages 22 to about 27 are the most critical years of your adult life. It'...
MAHERSHALA ALI At that moment in time when we feel like the other, we were not the person embraced, not one of the ...
MAHERSHALA ALI I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, dep...
MAHERSHALA ALI Now, being one who lived in the era of Obama, there are so many markers of improvement made. It'...
MAHERSHALA ALI In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is diff...
MAHERSHALA ALI I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the ri...
MAHERSHALA ALI You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse wor...
MAHERSHALA ALI I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to wh...
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