Chiwetel Ejiofor Quotes

I enjoyed being in California for a while. But that's the thing about London: you can't really shake it. I've always had the impression when I was in L.A. for long periods of time that simultaneously my life was happening somewhere else, and I'm missing it.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeTimeMy LifeLongYouLondon

Knowing who we are helps us plan for who we want to be and where we want to go.

Jim Gray

PlanGoWantKnowingWhereUs

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Jerry Seinfeld

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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

Jerome K. Jerome

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I don't really begin with ideas about genre. I certainly wrote a gothic novel, 'The Keep,' that conformed to and, in some ways, played with every convention I knew of to work with in the gothic, but the way I came to it was very instinctive and visceral.

Jennifer Egan

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You're basically like glass: People see the candidates through you.

John Dickerson

PeopleYouGlassSeeThroughLike

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

Maya Angelou

LifeYouPlaceSayBringLow

I use Moroccanoil shampoo and conditioner.

Ana Ivanovic

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It's really difficult to maintain a credible career as you jump from age group to age group and suddenly you're not the flavor of the month anymore; you're not in demand.

Robby Benson

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I have a problem with telling jokes about physics. Quite often the audience have no idea what you are talking about and, to be honest, I don't know what I'm talking about either.

Robin Ince

ProblemTalkingYouPhysicsKnow

My central quest was to have a piece played on the saxophone sound like more than one instrument, exploiting different registers and wide interval leaps.

Roscoe Mitchell

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All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Rudolf Arnheim

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The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

Moby

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