Idris Elba Quotes
The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
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Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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To play something which is a big spectrum is so much more fun, so much more of a challenge.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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The oath in any way or form you please,I stand resolv'd to take it.
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Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.
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The adrenaline feeling of jumping out of cliffs and bikes and all of that is very specific to the film. In 'Pac Rim' I'm not doing that so much. There isn't that touch stonework for me in it, but there is a lot of action.
