Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
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I know there are a lot of people out there who have the best intentions but not the voice, so it's about people like me to give them a voice and hear their ideas.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I love Coco de Mer.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Throwing money at something doesn't really create - forgive me that onerous word - art.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.
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In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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Viking women, if they were left behind, were ruling their town. They were earls in their own right; they owned land in their own right. They could divorce their husbands if they wanted to. All of those wonderful allowances that were made for women in the Viking culture weren't really part of the Christian culture at the time.
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I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.
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'Money's not interesting - too easy to get hold of.'
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The world isn't going to become an Islamic caliphate, but that doesn’t stop the Islamists from pursuing that as a goal.
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Nas is such a touchstone in my world.
