Edward Enninful Quotes
I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.
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I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.
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That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.
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The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.
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I'm fighting hard to make the world a better place, and you can, too. Get involved with your community, be a leader, set an example, be passionate, be your best.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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The Internet is just a bunch of servers and broadband cables and routers that traffic data around the world. But I think now the Internet is starting to become an entity that society views as a human thing.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.
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I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
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There are certain places in the world that are kind of energy vortexes, which are phenomenal.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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I really don't want to make the same film twice, so I am conscious of going after material that is significantly different to anything I've done before.
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There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.
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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.
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The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.
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My whole family's been involved with music, and it's been so since the minstrel days.
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I'm very proud of the world that's embracing all these different ideas of what it is to be diverse, in 2017.
