Idris Elba Quotes

I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

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• If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
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• For those who love, nothing is too difficult, especially when it is done for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  

  Saint Ignatius
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• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
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  • Day
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• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  

  Iris Murdoch
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• Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.

  

  Tamra Davis
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• I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Work
  • Decision
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• There's this wonderful first assistant and he'll be saying, 'Now Harry goes down among the dragons.' You have to hold yourself together. Because if you lose it for a second then you're sunk.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Together
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• What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

  

  Sai Baba
  • World
  • New
  • Old

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
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  • Precious
  • Possessions

• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Trouble
  • Big
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• As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

  

  Jack Vance
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• My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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• Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
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  • Live
  • Night

• Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.

  

  Nate Corddry
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  • Coffee

• There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.

  

  Eddie Huang
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  • Food

• I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.

  

  Felicia Day
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• If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.

  

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• I always wrote poetry as a teenager and it was always so dark, but it made me feel good to get it out.

  

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• It takes good memory to keep up a lie.

  

  Pierre Corneille
  • Up
  • Good

• The Internet keeps us constantly connected, and the increasing sophistication of mobile devices allows us much greater choice over when, how, and where we work.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • Work

• I'm not glamorous, I don't have a look, I don't know anything about opera, I have no Italian, and I'm too old.

  

  Tyne Daly
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• I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Good
  • God
  • Future