Carmen Ejogo Quotes
I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I usually get all my stress and anger out at the gym. But when I get out, I'm kind of a pleasant person - really.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Hold puppies, kittens, and babies anytime you get the chance.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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We were the 'chosen people,' chosen to be killed?
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I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.
