Daniel Kaluuya Quotes

A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

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• Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.

  

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• I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.

  

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• There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.

  

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• There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?

  

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

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• I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.

  

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• I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.

  

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• In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

  

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• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

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• Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

  

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• The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.

  

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• Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.

  

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• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.

  

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• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

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• My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.

  

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• 'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.

  

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• When generally people make race-based jokes to me - even if they're not technically racist, they're sort of based on me being Pakistani or whatever - on Twitter, you know, I block a lot of people who say something weird about my name or something. It does bug me generally, but it is all about context.

  

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• A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

  

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• I suppose many people in Ireland would regard me as being more a European writer than an Irish writer. I don't think this is so.

  

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• A lot of times, the people who have the confidence to say, 'I don't know what the rules are, so I'm just going to do what I want,' are the most exciting people.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
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