Noma Dumezweni Quotes

The world shows us what we need at a specific moment in time.

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• You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.

  

  Cameron Diaz
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  • Bored

• The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
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• It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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  • Support
  • Incredibly

• Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
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  • World

• A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.

  

  Sam Worthington
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  • Funny

• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  

  Dan Chaon
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  • Kind
  • Story

• I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.

  

  Sam Smith
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  • God

• The world is full of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
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  • World
  • Team

• I stopped singing for a long time because it just wasn't something I was very passionate about.

  

  BeBe Winans
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  • Long
  • Singing

• Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

  

  Samina Baig
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  • First Time

• If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.

  

  Kanye West
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• I think that Europeans in general have a more global view of the world because they are in such proximity to other countries that it enables them to travel and see other parts of the world.

  

  Valerie Cruz
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  • Think
  • Travel

• The world’s vast and strange, Hara, but no vaster and no stranger than our minds are. Think of that sometimes.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.

  

  Alexander Pope
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  • Happy
  • Space

• For all of my career, I have believed that America has a responsibility to lead in the world. That's why I was one of only a few Democrats in the United States Senate to vote in support of the use of force to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.

  

  Al Gore
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  • Why
  • America

• I was looking for joy Yes, yes, yes, yes When I was little bitty boy If I would have known what makes a world go 'round I would have known what goes up must come down If you love me like I love you Mademoiselle, je vous aime, voulez-vous?

  

  Chuck Berry
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  • World
  • Joy

• To be successful be ahead of your time, but only a little.

  

  Mason Cooley
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• From the moment I went to Hollywood for the first time, I was accused by various people of selling out. So I feel I've done my sell-out films already. I've sold everything! I've sold every piece of soul I ever had!

  

  Beeban Kidron
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  • Done

• I'm also launching a podcast. Because, I mean, the world desperately needs another podcast, am I right? Not to be a tease, but the format is different from anything else I've seen out there, and the subject matter is hopefully boundless, eye-opening, and a little cathartic.

  

  Chris Sacca
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  • Different

• No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes the dictatorship of the few instead of the initiative of the millions can produce a happier or more prosperous society.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
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  • Society

• It's really fun to get recognized for 'Step Brothers.'

  

  Adam Scott
  • Fun

• I've loved the opportunity to learn about the fashion world and appreciate it as an art form, and I look forward to my continued education, but I never want it to take over my acting.

  

  Lupita Nyong'o
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  • Art
  • Opportunity

• Today, somewhere in America, more foreclosures. More auctions. Another farmer plots his own death. And another. There is an art to making your death by combine look like an accident.

  

  Carolyn Chute
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  • America
  • Today

• The world shows us what we need at a specific moment in time.

  

  Noma Dumezweni
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