Idris Elba Quotes
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I am hunting for people who would be a good colleague or a teammate, not someone who works for me.
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I don't even see it as cable TV anymore. I've been called 'Larry the Cable Guy' for so long, I don't even think about it being about cable. I don't know anything about cable.
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I do know what my first meal in the next world would be... Spaghetti Aglio e Olio, heavy on everything.
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After I won my first amateur fight, I figured I would do fighting on the side while I was going to school. I got an offer after that amateur fight to take a professional fight. The opponent kind of wanted to have an easy win for her pro debt, and they said they'd pay me $1,500. I was like, 'Yeah, might as well get paid for what I was doing.'
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.
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I love writing but not crazy meticulous/prepared enough to be a director. I'd work as a gaffer on something.
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I actually really love British and European cinema, but you have to go where the work is, and for me, it's in America.
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There's a little good and bad in everyone. Everybody I've ever loved is very complicated.
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When the shot is afterwards subjected to white light, colour appears because of selective reflection.
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I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now.
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Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.
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Fortunately, I have money that's from my life's work. But it's money that I share and used greatly to fight poverty in my country.
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I love everyone over at Netflix. They're all fantastic and an absolute joy to work with.
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When I die, I want to be buried in a long long-sleeve black Ralph Lauren dress and brown chunky boots. I want my hair styled like his models, long hair that flows. I also want natural makeup with a light pink lip.
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I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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A library is a room where the murders take place.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.
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My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
