Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes
I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I want poverty to end in tomorrow's Pakistan. I want every girl in Pakistan to go to school.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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Ray Bradbury has a vacation house in Palm Springs, California, in the desert at the base of the Santa Rosa mountains. It's a Rat Pack-era affair, with a chrome-and-turquoise kitchen and a small swimming pool in back.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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The deep, seen with depth, is surface.
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When I was at drama school, I was totally broke, and a lot of my mates had jobs and were financially very good to me, so if, for example, I take them away on a trip to a football match in Europe, it means that I can pay them back a bit.
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Men and women are like cats and dogs. I've learned more about myself from women. My comedy is based on this.
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I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.
