Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
Laura Mvula -
I've been strongly opposed to racial discrimination and anything like that my whole life. Maybe it's thanks to my parents and where I grew up and that sort of thing, but particularly with gay and lesbian citizens, I've seen that people can be cruel, and it's very distressing.
Ted Olson -
The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.
Sam Hunt -
I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
Victoria Pendleton -
I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!
Zooey Deschanel
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
Marx and Engels never talked about murdering the bourgeois. According to the old bourgeois concept, the judges were the ones who judged, and the executioners were the ones who executed.
Fidel Castro -
We want a system that will improve consistency and steadiness in the quality of government.
Ferdinand Mount -
I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
Barry Sternlicht -
I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.
Dan Harmon -
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
Natalia Makarova
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I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.
Harold Bloom -
It takes a lot of intellect to have faith, which is why so many people only have religiosity.... I'm against people taking the Bible absolutely literally, rather than letting some of it be real fantasy, like Jonah... Faith is best expressed in story.
Madeleine L'Engle -
When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions. I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
E. B. White -
Bedell Smith: Well, in any case, you are going to be shot. Seyss-Inquart: That leaves me cold. Bedell Smith: It will.
Arthur Seyss-Inquart -
To me, it's always about quality not quantity.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
I never liked going in the ocean.
Albert Brooks
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
Dan Totheroh -
Love of, and respect for, the humble routine of everyday life and its creatures was the only moral commandment which carried conviction when I was a child.
Halldor Laxness -
I write totally spontaneously. I actually write fiction by hand - that always seems to startle people. I think the reason I do that is to bypass the thinking part of me and get to the more unconscious part, which is where all the good ideas seem to be.
Jennifer Egan -
People like to work for a winner.
Steven Burd -
It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.
Chiwetel Ejiofor