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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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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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Writing my first book, I think in hindsight I went into it saying, 'It's gonna sell.' I was earning enough to scrape by sometime around a book or two before 'Tell No One.' I moved up from $50,000 to $75,000, then $150,000 for each book. I had never thought I would be doing anything else. I had enough encouragement.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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Whenever someone says something bad about you, just confront them on it and just be a man and own up to it. If you said something you shouldn t have said, and it's important to somebody you need to talk to, you need to go talk to them. Be a man. Step up.
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Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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I've been DJing mostly, and most DJs end up producing. That's just me.
