John Boyega Quotes
My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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I became completely addicted to 'Angry Birds' for a while.
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You can't tag me as a regional actress.
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Women drive box office.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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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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I would lie in bed, and I was nine years old, and say to myself: 'I want to be the richest man in the world.' I've come a long way from there.
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I didn't particularly like being objectified.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I just feed off the energy of the audience.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.
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If the person at the wheel refuses to ask for directions, it is time for a new driver.
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I came home from school one day, and there was a phone call for me. And I picked up the phone. They said, 'This is the Harvard Admissions Department. We'd like to let you know that you're accepted in the freshman class.' And I said, 'Come on, who is this really?`
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The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
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My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.
