Carmen Ejogo Quotes

One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

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• If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.

  

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• Balance is key in cooking - you want a little acid, a little sweet, a little savory - the flavors should be harmonious.

  

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• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

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• The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

  

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• If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.

  

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• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

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• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

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• I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!

  

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• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

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• I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

  

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• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

  

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• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

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• Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.

  

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• Also, with information having just come out at the time about J. Edgar Hoover's electronic surveillance of Dr. King, it gave greater weight to the statements of those persons who were alleging involvement of the FBI.

  

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• Shakespeare is not our poet, but the world's,Therefore on him no speech! and brief for thee,Browning! Since Chaucer was alive and hale,No man hath walked along our roads with stepSo active, so inquiring eye, or tongueSo varied in discourse.

  

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• There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

  

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• I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

  

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• One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

  

  Carmen Ejogo
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