Naomie Harris Quotes
At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I don't want anybody to dictate to America how to decide our lives.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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I am a just man.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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You know if you're in Rome, live in the Roman way. I grew up there, I was born there, and so I should follow its guidelines, live like a Korean. And I really love Korea. I grew up listening to Korean music, and was able to get to where I am because of it.
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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
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I don't really know why I'm so busy, but I like it. Sometimes I think I need to slow down. And then I'm even busier!
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One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.
