Ruth Negga Quotes
When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.
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Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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When my wrestlers got their hands raised, I jumped for joy.
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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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One of the key places where sociology should be used is in analyzing 'the world' of our times, so that we can be more discerning. To resist the dangers of the world, you have to recognize the distortions and seductions of the world.
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The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
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The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.|
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When I grow up I wanna be like Omar
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I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.
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If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.
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Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.
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The present is what slips by us while we're pondering the past and worrying about the future.
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I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
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Prison had a way of draining people of their hope and humanity. But Harlan didn't have to worry about that because he'd gone in empty.
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I see so many ways America uses to rob Negroes and it is sinful and America can't keep holding on, and doing these things.
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The way of the pioneer is always rough.
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Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.
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If you think hitting 40 is liberating, wait until you hit 50; and I was surprised at how liberating it was. The anticipation of something is always much worse than the reality.
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When you work with directors who really love actors, who love their contribution, it feels amazing. But sometimes when you work with directors, you feel like youre in the way.
