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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
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When I was a kid, I wasn't making my choices based on anything other than 'Did I want to work that day?' or 'Did being in school sound more fun?' And I don't remember ever reading a script and thinking, 'Is this going to be a fun part to play?'
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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Good executives, like all good leaders, must expect opposition when making decisions or when making or enforcing the law. But executives must engage those that disagree with them.
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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.
