Idris Elba Quotes

I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

Idris Elba

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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'Business Week' is guilty of very shoddy reporting.

Jerry Della Femina

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One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

Anna Faris

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Most artists are notoriously insecure, and I fall into that category.

Anita Baker

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My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

Anita Diament

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You've gotta take care of the body you've got. You've got to be fit. You've got to be active. You've got to be healthy. We don't need to be pictures in a magazine.

Michael Cudlitz

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I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Amanda Palmer

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Sometimes our definitions fall short. Take, for example, the way we view income and labor. It simply doesn't cover enough of the work that women, and in particular poor women, are doing - especially in their own households and the vast 'informal' economy in which most of the world's poorest people work.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

Simon Sinek

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I grew up in a Southern Baptist-style church with a choir, a band, and music, but I've been asking myself my whole life, 'Why is my own church, my own community, rejecting me because of my sexuality?'

Roger Ross Williams

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My template for most songs is 'Is this inspiring?' and with the blues it so often is.

Mick Fleetwood

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The worst resentment that anybody can have is one you feel justified to keep.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

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One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.

Jay Parini

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