Daniel Kaluuya Quotes
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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Government should stand aside and let the business community prosper instead of imposing new regulations that will only stifle growth and limit access to capital.
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'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bash Old Etonians. It was always the class and privilege aspect of that world that I was most drawn to. There is something endlessly fascinating about imagining something you could never be involved in.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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Even celebrities, most people have a sense of humor. Most of the people we meet who we've done on the show, like it.
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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.
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The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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When work ends, I'd rather just be seen as Daniel - normal.
