Carmen Ejogo Quotes

I really feel that I had a genuinely diverse, multicultural upbringing, and I just don't find New York to be quite as diverse. Maybe I'm romanticising, but I feel that I was exposed to a real melting pot in terms of culture and pop culture. My kids are essentially middle-class, but I do try to remind them that they come from humble beginnings.

Carmen Ejogo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 1, 1974

Topics

HumbleCultureNew YorkFeelFind

We use convertible notes a lot at our fund - 8VC - so often that we just call them 'notes' to save time.

Joe Lonsdale

TimeCallNotesJustSaveOur

In 'Seven Ancient Wonders,' Jack West and his team break someone out of Guantanamo Bay. I'm not going to preach to people and say, 'Guantanamo Bay, bad', but I will have my hero go and break somebody out of it, and maybe people will think about it that way.

Matthew Reilly

HeroPeopleTeamThinkSomeoneBad

Ellen DeGeneres is great. She has this natural style, and she makes comedy look so easy.

Anjelah Johnson

GreatStyleComedyEasyLookShe

We never want to go into a tour and play 15 songs and say 'Enjoy.' We have messages: Number 1, follow your dreams. If I can do it, you can do it. Number 2, give your life to something. We say, 'Volunteer and add seven years to your life.' You can have your own personal ministry. The message we have is 'What do you stand for?'

John Tesh

LifeDreamsYour DreamsYou Can Do It

Obviously, the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing, I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

Sonia Johnson

MarriagePeopleDangerousSayOut

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

Rose Tremain

WorkLoveYouKindAffairFinished

Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

Russell Lynes

Century20th CenturyFanfare

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.

Mary Pilon

LiveHistoryResearchBookEndPage

My first manager, he had left Germany when he was five, but he would joke about the Nazis. And I'd laugh, but I'd look at him, and he was the first one who told me, 'You know, funny is a powerful thing; it's a wonderful weapon.'

Michael Keaton

FunnyMeLaughYouPowerfulLook

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

Lorraine Hansberry

BeautyArtMyselfPersonalityJoy

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Jared Diamond

AnimalWorldLandWildBeginUp

There must have been something in the air of Gary that led one into economics: the first Nobel Prize winner, Paul Samuelson, was also from Gary, as were several other distinguished economists.

Joseph Stiglitz

EconomicsWinnerFirstEconomists

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Carmen Ejogo