John Boyega Quotes
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I think you don't do work for controversy alone, and whenever you do new work which people don't understand and they say it is done to create controversy.
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Whenever I come across an Arabic word mired in English text, I am momentarily shocked out of the narrative.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I don't think I'm a workaholic. Every weekend, I invite my colleagues and friends to my home to play cards. And people, my neighbors, are always surprised because I live on the second floor apartment, and there are usually 40 pairs of shoes in front of my gate, and people play cards inside and play chess. We have a lot of fun.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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I don't want any yes – men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guitar all day.
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The real trick to these movies and making the big action sequences work - and I've forgotten this sometimes and screwed it up - the characters really have to be humanized. Because you can have the greatest special effects in the world, but if you don't care about the people in those effects, there's no impact.
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For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.
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Man has the possibility of existence after death. But possibility is one thing and the realization of the possibility is quite a different thing.
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Everyone I vote for never wins. Welcome to America.
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Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.
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I'm a comic reader and a manga fan.
