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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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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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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The first temptation, upon meeting an old friend after many years, is always to - look the other way.
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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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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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I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.
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We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
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That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.
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I don't mind being it [age 60], I just don't like saying it.
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My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.
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We just need to put our foot down. This is a good time for us to bring this to a place of fairness, and girls need to know that being a feminist is a good thing. It doesn't mean that you hate men. It means equal rights. If you're doing the same job, you should be compensated and treated in the same way.
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How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?
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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.
