Noma Dumezweni Quotes
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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The Ferrari is a beautiful car. It's great.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Reading is a free practice. I think the readers are free to begin by the books where they want to. They don't have to be led in their reading.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.
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I'm a hot mess when it comes to any physical activity. My body just pours sweat. Not a lot of people know, but I always have my trusty inhaler with me. When I start to have even a little bit of an asthma attack, I just start dripping sweat. It's my body's emergency system.
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Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
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Nuclear tests poison the environment - and they also poison the political climate. They breed mistrust, isolation and fear.
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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.
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There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to understand the common antithesis of a good writer and a bad man.
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I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.
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'Transformers' was important and defining for me because it taught me about what kinds of movies I want to make and the kind of actor I want to be, and I have a long way to go before I become that actor.
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I will serve the people in a very humble way.
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I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.
