Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

We take it for granted sometimes that certain parts of our history are told, and we take it for granted that we know all that stuff, and we move forward along on that basis, but there are also massive gaps, and we have to try to address them.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 10, 1974

Topics

HistoryForwardKnowSometimesTry

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Steve Coogan

FunnyGreatSimpleSilencePeople

I've always identified with the misfits.

Stephan Jenkins

AlwaysMisfitsIdentified

When we look at transportation in America, there's going to be companies like Magic Bus, where you have these private bus fleets. You're going to have carpooling; you're going to have these different types of transportation. It's going to be a full ecosystem, but it's not going to be a winner-takes-all.

Troy Carter

AmericaMagicTransportationLook

I had always looked down on sociology as this arriviste discipline. It didn't have the noble history of English and history as a subject. But once I had a little exposure to it, I said, 'Hey, here's the key. Here's the key to understanding life and all its forms.'

Tom Wolfe

LifeHistoryDisciplineKeyDown

Bagpipes is a woodwind instrument, so you have to warm it up. But in a wrestling dressing room? You've got to be kidding me.

Roddy Piper

MeWarmYouWrestlingDressingRoom

I was never really a bone fide member of the folk scene.

Roy Harper

NeverBoneMemberSceneFolkReally

My mother's dad dropped out of the eighth grade to work. He had to. By the time he was 30, he was a master electrician, plumber, carpenter, mason, mechanic. That guy was, to me, a magician. Anything that was broken, he could fix. Anybody anywhere in our community knew that if there was a problem, Carl was there to fix it.

Mike Rowe

WorkMotherCommunityTimeBroken

There is nothing inconsistent about having a conservative outlook and being vigorous.

Mitch Daniels

NothingConservativeBeingOutlook

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Joyce Meyer

PatienceWaitingWaitAbilityBehave

An important part of any good mystery story like 'Original Sin' is that it's not just a game of 'Clue' with surprise after surprise after surprise, but the goal is to tell a story in the midst of that. Even once you know the solution to the mysteries, it's far from the whole story.

Jason Aaron

GoodGameStorySurpriseSolution

Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.

Jonathan Turley

MoneySomeoneCongressSayPresident

I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

Daya

LoveGreatMeStartIndependentBig

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