John Boyega Quotes
Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I love this country very much, and I'm proud to live here, but I think our current administration is extreme. These are not merely conservative people, these are extreme right-wing people.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.
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Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.
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Burning fossil fuels emits carbon dioxide. And carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere. There is no debate about that. The link is as certain as the link between smoking and cancer.
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Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end.
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Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.
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Acting careers don't come out fully formed - not unless your name is Jaden Smith and your dad has done it all.
