Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.

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• Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

  

  J. A. Jance
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• There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
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• I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

  

  Gavid Hood
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• Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Power
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• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Style
  • Learn
  • Try

• I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
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• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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• I think I'm a good judge of character.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
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• To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Character
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• You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Character
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• I remember feeling that Michael was extremely sensitive when it came to that moment. Most directors are and they usually rely, at least in my experience, on the actress to take over. And Michael is a gentleman.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
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• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
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• In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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  • Ice

• Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

  

  Chris Tucker
  • Character
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• The worst story I ever wrote was after the conviction of Jeff Skilling and Ken Lay. My co-author and I wrote a piece for 'Fortune' saying everything's going to be different now.

  

  Bethany McLean
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• Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

  

  Phylicia Rashad
  • People
  • Different
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• I believe that our communities can benefit if they know about and participate in the U.N.'s various human rights forums.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • Believe

• There are many different ways the public can respond to actors - they can see you on TV and feel they know you and own you, and there can be something quite cornering about that.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
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