Idris Elba Quotes
I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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I really believe musical form will go on. There's got to be a way of making musical form in cinema live again.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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I don't believe in a chronological way of doing things.
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I paint, and painting gives me my much needed break from my routine. Painting was a subject in my school, and I developed a liking for the lines and colours and started practising in my free time. It helps me de-stress amidst my hectic shooting schedules.
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I'm like a gypsy. I've got a place in Beijing, a place in New York, a place in west Africa; I'm working on a place in Colombia. I like the fact that painting is portable - and I've wanted my entire life to be able to see the world, to respond to it, and make that my life's work.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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Without deviation progress is not possible.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
