Elliot Knight Quotes

I'd had four auditions for 'Sinbad' when I got the phone call. I was in the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and I screamed very loudly. Then I ran outside, and I screamed some more.

Elliot Knight

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• One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.

  

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• How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.

  

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• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  

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• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

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• I am the last of the Mohicans, the creme de la creme of cabaret.

  

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• The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.

  

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• Is it written that equality between men and women means one can change sex? Obviously not.

  

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• I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.

  

  Irvine Welsh
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• Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.

  

  Warren Zevon
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• I'm not trying to set the world on fire; I just want to make really beautiful clothes that women want to wear, can afford, and can really see themselves in.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.

  

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• They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun.

  

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• Although labor income is by far the largest component of gross national product, a job is not just a commodity. For many, work is an important reason for living. Even for those who are less fortunate in their allocation of work, being unemployed is a miserable state.

  

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• You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

  

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• I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

  

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• I like the fact that when you're put into a really extreme situation, you put everything else aside. You put your ego aside and get on with it, and I quite like that.

  

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• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

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• Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

  

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• Lewis Black taught me stand-up.

  

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• I guess what I'm passionate about is, I see so many things that I find that there's no real solution to, and you're only here for such a brief moment in time, even if you live to be a hundred years old. Yet, what happens within that time frame? So many things happen.

  

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• For many years when I was younger, I let negative things that people said about me affect my life. What I've learned is that it's really important to find the right support network, focus on the positive things in your life and quiet that negative voice in your head.

  

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• Show me how to love the unlovable Show me how to reach the unreachable Help me now to do the impossible...Fo rgiveness

  

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• I'd had four auditions for 'Sinbad' when I got the phone call. I was in the Trafford Centre in Manchester, and I screamed very loudly. Then I ran outside, and I screamed some more.

  

  Elliot Knight