Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
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I am not honest.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, and I think it required a big perception shift. When people have dedicated their lives to something - and spent eight years in college - they just expect that a kid wouldn't be up to doing it.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
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I decided to become an actor at five. I saw the most gorgeous woman that I had ever seen in my five years of living on television. She had on a long, red dress and her eyelashes looked like butterflies and I said, "Grandmamma, who is that?" She said, "Baby, that's Lola Falana." I said, "That's it right there. I want to be black, fabulous, and on TV."
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I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.
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I love being black.
