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Idris Elba Quotes

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Networking You Mine Personalities

There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.

Jessica Williams

Culture Media News Serious New Way

I've gone through various periods with superheroes. They work in the right hands, but they don't work in other hands. It's tricky. But any movie is tricky. It's impossible to say, 'This is what you do in any situation.'

Work Impossible Hands You Situation

When I know what the character I'm supposed to play wants in general terms, and when I know what did the other characters want to do, that's when all these wills collide and the emotions show up.

Character Emotions Play Know Want

Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.

Ending End Surprise Garden Find Big

I just want real reactions. I want people to laugh from the gut, be sad from the gut - or get angry from the gut.

Sad Angry People Laugh Want Real

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Advice Bad Enemy Worse Than

For fifty years, debates about French anti-Semitism mainly revolved around France's record during the Second World War, when the Vichy government collaborated with the Germans.

Government War World Years Fifty

Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.

Monica Bellucci

Beauty Talent You Call Your

Daniel Boulud told me at a young age, 'Whatever happens to you in your career, you're going to be great - be humble. Just be humble.' And I think about that daily. Like, whatever happens to me, whatever awards we win as a team or whatever else, just be humble.

Daily Age Great Humble Team Win

As I found while leading special operations forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, if the problem is interconnected, your organization must be, as well.

Organization Problem Special Well

Most authors would love to see their characters made for the screen, especially one that's quite colourful.

Love See Screen Would Made Most

We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing their home or job. Where every child gets to fulfil their potential. Where corporations pay their fair share of taxes and work for the good of the majority, not just their shareholders.

Winnie Byanyima

Work Good Fear Home Live Job

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