Noma Dumezweni Quotes

Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'

Noma Dumezweni

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• I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

  

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• I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.

  

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• I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

  

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• I've always been a very prolific writer.

  

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• As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.

  

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  

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• I'm very curious to know what it's like, death - I always say to my wife, 'I wonder if we'll have the 'New York Times' when we're dead.'

  

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• Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'

  

  Noma Dumezweni
  • Lives
  • Appreciated
  • Deathbed