Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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On film, I'm very mysterious, but in life I'm very dull.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

LifeMysteriousFilmDullVery

A dress is an emotional thing to make. You've got to fall in love with it and not just with the dress - the whole process of designing it has to be a good experience.

Jenny Packham

LoveGoodExperienceDressProcess

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

Robert Moog

BuildingKidBeenElectronicSince

I took my waitress uniform. Seemed fitting.

Shiri Appleby

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My focus is on comfort, so I tend to keep it simple and casual - both during and after the basketball season.

Tony Parker

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I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

Mike Scully

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I've been trying to cut down on caffeine because it seems to aggravate my middle-age-onset acne, but I'm too tired to care. I'm growing a beard to hide it.

Lou Barlow

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I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

Louis C. K.

KnowWhyAlwaysStageWhereSure

Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone.

Jaron Lanier

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There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

Jose Manuel Barroso

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I was recently designated Tweeter Laureate of Texas, which apparently is a thing.

Don Willett

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Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

Chris Evert

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