Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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It just tends to be that the grass is always greener. If I'm doing a movie, I suddenly think, 'Oh God, I wish I could just get a play script I could get my teeth into.' If I'm doing eight shows a week in a West End musical, I think, 'God, how lovely it would be to be in a TV series right now.'
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I'm not the girl for super high fashion because I don't have the right body. When I want to get dressed up, I'm a Roberto Cavalli girl.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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I don't tend to offer up a critique unless I have a clearly formulated alternative, because there's nothing worse than people on a set or any kind of artistic life who critique something but who don't have anything to offer.
