Idris Elba Quotes
It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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Education is the largest and most important investment Utah makes.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I like to put a stake in people, because I know people helped me.
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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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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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Here's the thing, for me at least: this is a huge genre now. It wasn't always so. Not so many years ago, it wasn't so. There is a tremendous diversity in fantasy today.
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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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People are very curious and have written a lot of things about me. Right or not. I never comment on those things, because it's not much of my thing to comment on everything that's written about me.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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Is only a tennis match. At the end, that's life. There is much more important things.
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When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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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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A Seer's moon, a Siren's tears, Nineteen Mortal, Wayward fears, Incubus graves and Caster rivers, The Final Page the End delivers.
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?
