Idris Elba Quotes
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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This is part of what's driving me, is this feeling like there's so much yet to be discovered in the oceans, and we're destroying it before we even know what's in it.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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Writing an essay is like a school assignment: I have my topic, I organize my thoughts, and I write it. I have complete control over what I'm doing. Writing a novel is like setting out on a journey without knowing who or what I'll encounter, how long it's going to take, or where I'm going to end up.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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Everyone may have some advise for the RBI. Some may advise, 'Cut your lending rates and raise the deposit rate.' How will a bank function? We take a medium term view. The bank has an 80-year-old history. I don't want to destroy it for a few decisions.
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I wasn't trying to be a role model with 'The Dutchess,' but suddenly, seeing little girls in the audience with their moms made me think about what I do onstage a little bit more. I had to watch my mouth, because it can be filthy. It changed things for me.
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To get a film in Cannes is a real honor. To have it play and not get booed is a real relief.
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I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.
