Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
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In the long run, we will need many more African-American, Latino, and Native American leaders, and leaders from low-income communities, who can bring additional insight and a deeply grounded sense of urgency, and who are the most likely to inspire the necessary trust and engagement among students' parents and community leaders.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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I like going to rifle and pistol clubs and joining them in target shooting. I also share the same respect for individual initiative and love of family.
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I know that there are many things I could do, but I'm not interested. It's more important to be loving and to have a lively mind.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I am a journalist.
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I've always been very competitive, and I've always had this desire to win my entire life. I guess when it comes to being in the cage, especially, I just hate losing more than I like to win. The idea of someone beating me just doesn't sit well.
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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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I'm a better mother if I'm also doing my work. Some women find a lot more satisfaction from doing the hardest job, which is being a mom. But I like my day job, so I juggle a lot.
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The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
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We know that the hardest work is to keep yourself open to the world that technology hasn't tamed.
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Whether it was H. P. Lovecraft's doomed towns or Shirley Jackson's lonely, looming 'The Haunting of Hill House,' the boondocks had all the fun. As a black kid in Queens, New York, I couldn't have felt more removed.
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Living with a god is not what it's cracked up to be. They think their women should be grateful just to have them around.
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My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
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If we don't act now to safeguard our privacy, we could all become victims of identity theft.
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You eat as many vegetables as you can, and try to cut your carbs and your sugar. That's going to make the job of being a diabetic so much easier.
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Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.
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Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.
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I find it hard to watch a lot of the kind of things I'm doing before doing it. I don't think it's helpful for me. It makes me too aware.
