Edward Enninful Quotes
I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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To me, we never get enough funding. In New York, we are clearly the number one terrorist target in the country.
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I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.
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The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.
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I experience psychic phenomena, so people think I must be crazy. But you have to be accessible and intelligent to be a good actor. I might not have gotten the best grades in school, but I have a very high level of emotional intelligence. You have to be open to receive.
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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
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I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people.
