Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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Personally, becoming a mother has been such a rewarding and wonderful experience. However, at times it has also been a huge challenge. Even for me who has support at home that most mothers do not.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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I love it and really, really enjoy weight training. I love free weights. I find it really rewarding.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
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'Red Robin' was just another audition, like a lot of other auditions. I just lucked out, and I got it. It's a great group of people I get to work with. Roger Craig Smith and Will Friedle and a bunch of guys. It's fun!
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I think I'd be too scared to direct my first movie and put myself in the center.
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I wish I could get all the discourteous drivers on a ship and sail them away and make sure it's a really horrible, wavy journey and when they get to where they're going, keep them there.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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Good walkers can go anywhere in these hospitable mountains without artificial ways.
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The expression of Christian character is not good doing, but God-likeness. If the Spirit of God has transformed you within, you will exhibit Divine characteristics in your life, not good human characteristics . God's life in us expresses itself as God's life, not as human life trying to be godly.
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I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.
