Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I competed in track for 10 years and have been doing kickboxing forever.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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As long as government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked lives.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I think there's a fear of difference in American cinema.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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Change is the one thing we can be sure of.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov
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I've been so lucky to have done two spacewalks. If you looked at your wristwatch, I was outside about 15 hours, which is about 10 times around the world. And, you know, there's a whole time dilation, distortion thing.
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I would imagine that most of my writing is done spontaneously. I had no intention of writing, and then I'll just walk through the house, and I'll hear this melody, and I'll turn on the tape players and go back to it later on. Some days I'll get 3-5 songs a day.
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Pittsburgh, for a while, became a production centre. There was one $400 million year. Hollywood was bringing productions in there. Films like 'The Silence of the Lambs' and 'Innocent Blood.' So my guys, the guys I worked with, were able to have careers and live at home. But then it dried up, and a lot of my friends left.
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I don't care if people think I'm gay. I know I'm not, so it doesn't bother me.
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I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.
