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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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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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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Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
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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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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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I want your loves to be multiple. I don't want you to be a snob about anything. Anything you love, you do it.
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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.
