Carmen Ejogo Quotes
I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I think I need security.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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Age, like distance lends a double charm.
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We're trying to be very careful and precise in our use of language, because I think the language we use and the images we project really do have resonance. It's the reason why I don't use the term jihadist to refer to terrorists. It gives them the religious legitimacy they so desperately seek, but I ain't gonna give it to them.
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Pray when you feel like it, pray when you don't feel like it, pray until you do feel like it!
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When people say I can't or I musn't, I always say I can and I will.
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My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it.
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My wife grew up loving country music, so I always run songs by her whether I wrote it or if somebody pitched it to me.
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I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.
