Idris Elba Quotes

If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 6, 1972

Topics

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I think they should let gays in the military because we are the United States of America. And if a gay person wants to serve his or her country, why should they not be allowed to?

Jesse Ventura

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I lean toward anything with a dark sense of humor. And since I've been out of school, the majority of my books have been contemporary; basically, I like my characters to have electricity - even better, a TV.

Andrea Seigel

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When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

John Irving

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'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.

Robert Gottlieb

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That's what you want... you work hard, you want your guys to, you know, work the same way you work, and it all helps the team.

Stefon Diggs

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Therapy can help you grow. Fears will just disappear.

Stephanie Mills

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With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.

Trent Reznor

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Few American presidents are held in higher esteem than Thomas Jefferson. Though historians have scrutinized every phase of his long public career and found him wanting in a number of respects, he holds an unshakable place in the pantheon of American heroes.

Robert Dallek

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The best I can do is to make a film every two years.

Martin Scorsese

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Generally, I move in the direction of art.

Michael Keaton

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Daddy felt that this country was hopeless in its treatment of Negroes. So he became a refugee from America. He bought a house in Polanco, a suburb of Mexico City, and we were planning to move there when he died. I was fourteen at the time.

Lorraine Hansberry

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Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.

Diane von Furstenberg

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