Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
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Normally, I rely heavily on my director to massage me out of my actor comfort zones.
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I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.
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I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.
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Everything I do is for my parents and my family. The car is nice, the house is nice, but none of this matters without them. If it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be here. I don't know where I would be, honestly.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
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There are too many senior citizens and good residents in Chicago who are sick and tired of having to walk several blocks out of their way when they leave their homes just to avoid the gangs and drug dealers on the street corner.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.
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Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
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So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.
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I have heard it said that living out of our vision is more powerful than living out of our circumstance.
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I've always wanted to make a film.
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I've just tried to keep my eyes open, tried to read everything you can, and tried to see whether I see myself within it. If I do, then I can get excited about it.
