Idris Elba Quotes
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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Oracle is obsessed with security. It's an absolute requirement for all our products. The real security issue is when customers take older products that were not built for the Internet, and kind of rack them and put them on the Internet.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I recently read an article on how I was dropped from a film because I couldn't dance! It was so ridiculous that I decided to shut up about it. Let people say what they want to. It's such a waste of time.
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I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Whether we like it or not, men and women are not the same in nature, temperament, emotions and emotional responses.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.
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I've been able to do what I love and what I'm passionate about my entire life. I made, you know, an insane amount of money playing baseball.
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Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.
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Supercookies are legal, but I don't think they should be.
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The biggest difference for me was that I operated almost every frame on 'Mudbound,' and I didn't operate on 'Black Panther.'
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
