Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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I don't believe we have defined health care reform very well in this country.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.
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Issues to do with disability, mental health and not being neurotypical often affect many genuine teenagers but are rarely reflected in the fiction they read.
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We must be humble and listen to the people who elected us to lead.
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There are a zillion possibilities that you can do on a piece of paper; there is no rational way to choose. So you have let something else speak... so I can't really remember which comes first, the dialogue or the pictures. It comes from that place where it sort of all comes together on its own.
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I'm from a working-class background, and I've experienced that worry of not having a job next week because the unions are going on strike.
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But if it's tolerable mediocrity, and you're like, 'Well, you know it could be worse. At least I'm getting paid.' Then you wind up in a job that is slowly killing your soul and you're allowing that to happen. Comfort can be a very, very dangerous thing.
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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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I was able to go on stage and work until it felt right or felt good. It meant that I very quickly realised that it was the job for me.
