Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.
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You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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The way that I opened the door for the young people that come from where I come from and that have a different background, that is what I want to be remembered for.
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Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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It's really kind of a luxury for an actor to have the opportunity to show such different types of characters. I actually left 'Cowboys & Aliens' and went straight into 'The Change-Up.' It was kind of a funny change of pace.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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Sometimes you can find peace of mind by transferring yourself to different situations. They're just reminders to stay... calm.
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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
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You must learn to see what you are looking at.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
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I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
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I go to Uganda, I can't speak the language. In India, I'm black. In the black community, I'm dark-skinned. In America, I'm British.
