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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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

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• I don't understand it. Jack will spend any amount of money to buy votes but he balks at investing a thousand dollars in a beautiful painting.

  

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• There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
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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.

  

  Bebe Rexha
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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.

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
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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.

  

  Harri Holkeri
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• The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.

  

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

  

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

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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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!

  

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

  

  O. J. Simpson
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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.

  

  Idris Elba
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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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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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.'

  

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

  

  Rachel Weisz
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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
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• I've always been a leader. If someone was getting picked on in school, I'd try to deflate that situation by inviting that kid to eat lunch with me. I've always tried to be a uniter.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • School

• My idea at this time, which was slowly developing, was to create a comedie humaine with little people, average people - samples from every period in American life.

  

  Douglas Sirk
  • People
  • Life
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• I actually share one thing with Whitney Houston, which is, I also have sweating issues.

  

  Kathy Griffin

• There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Mind

• 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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