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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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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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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What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information to, so many points in the brain, with a computational infrastructure in between - a computer that can process the information and compute exactly what needs to be restored.
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The wonderful thing about maths is it's a totally logical subject, and a pathway has been marked out. I think a lot of these things can be crystallised in something quite essential, that people can get. If I can't explain it, I realise that's probably because I don't completely understand it myself.
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I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became Christians. Then they taught me and my two brothers how to love the Lord - and how to surf!
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Most of America don't even listen to music probably. They just go raccoon hunting or something.
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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.
