John Boyega Quotes
My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.
Quotes to Explore
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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'HIM' is much more of a British, coming-of-age series, while 'Stranger Things' is very obviously a sci-fi drama.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that's a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who knows?
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I think worldwide, the movement has been towards accepting and respecting the individuality and the rights of gay people, lesbians and transgender people. Here, however, age-old cultural mindsets - which also comes from Victorian times, affect the thinking of people.
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What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
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Against Pascal I say: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the God of the philosophers is the same God. He is a person and the negation of himself as a person. Faith comprises both itself and the doubt of itself. The Christ is Jesus and the negation of Jesus.
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My biggest challenge is to not do urban movies for the rest of my life, those alpha hoodies.
