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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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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Getting direct consumer revenue through movies or games or other culture products is something that we are very suitable for.
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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 had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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I believe in the balance between dreaming and building.
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When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
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I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them.
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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.
