Burna Boy (Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu) Quotes
I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it's worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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Speed is more important than endurance in the decathlon.
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Preach or proselytize for Christianity in much of the Islamic world, and you are a candidate for martyrdom. Practice freedom of speech in Xi Jinping's China, and you can wind up in a cell.
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I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
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I have to believe that people can change, otherwise I deny the Gospel, and I will not do that.
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Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.
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You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
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War is the normal state of the people.
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I always wanted to know what lens they were on, how close they were. I didn't do it with a plan in mind, but I would instinctively gear what I was doing toward what lenses they were using.
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All you can do is the best you can do.
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It's rare that you cut out something that is really good. You screen all of it, and when the audience doesn't respond, you cut out whatever is holding the story down.
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It's always nice when people say nice things or are complimentary.
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In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
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I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.
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I don't plan stuff. I don't believe in planning. I just believe in doing your best at what you do best at all times and everything else is everything else. Everything else is a plus.
