Michaela Ewuraba Boakye-Collinson (Michaela Coel) Quotes
I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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You do have to overcome the child's thinking that this new woman, who is not their mother, is going to be in their lives.
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The whole structure of science gradually grows, but only as it is built upon a firm foundation of past research.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I love Chicago. I lived there briefly for three months and kept a boat under one of those space-age buildings. It was very Jetsons.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
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Sometimes I get very dressed up just to go to the corner for some bread; I dress for my own amusement.
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People say that globalisation has negative aspects, but I don't believe globalisation is bad. It's criticised from a western perspective, but if you put yourself in the shoes of people in the developing world, it provides an unprecedented opportunity.
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We see the moon, don't we? So it's our eye. Animals see us, don't they? So we're their animals.
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I like to work.
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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
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I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.
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I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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I've been back in New York a year and a half now. Before that I was on the West Coast for five years. There's no comparison between the two. You hear things in New York you don't hear anywhere else. Unless these guys go out. Quite a few make it out to the Coast. Of course, you can't stay in New York for ever. You have to move.
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Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.
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I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.
