Idris Elba Quotes

I'm not interested in making all-black films - I come from a very diverse culture; I want to work with every type of person. I work a lot with women executives because they seem to be a lot more open minded about that and a lot more progressive in that way.

Idris Elba

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Author Biography

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

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My high-school a cappella teacher would embarrass me in front of the choir. 'Mavis, you're in the basement. Mavis, you're singing with the boys.' I said, 'Mr. Finch, my voice isn't soprano. I can't sing up there with the girls.' So I just got out of the choir.

Mavis Staples

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'I Can Do That' has been the most challenging show of my life, and the result has been overwhelming. It is good to know I will be in the history as the first winner of the season of the show.

Rithvik Dhanjani

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Every sexy joke of long ago, every flirtation, is being recalled by some women and revised and re-evaluated as sexual harassment. Frivolous accusations reduce, if not eliminate, not only communication between men and women but any kind of playfulness and banter... Where has the laughter gone?

Maryanne Trump Barry

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Production for movies or TV is very painstaking and slow.

Mike White

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Despite the fact that there was not one shred of evidence that George Zimmerman 'racially profiled' Trayvon Martin, America's liberals have literally taken to the streets to denounce a verdict that was, by all accounts, a just one.

Mike Gallagher

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I want to stay in London. I am very happy here, and so are my family. I like the city.

Luka Modric

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With rap, you go in the studio, you make music, you put the music out, then all of a sudden, you're a star: you have a big record on the radio, and you're on stage, and you've never done it before. Let's say your first show is 'Summer Jam,' and you're in front of 60,000 people, and you've never played an arena, ever. You're gonna suck.

Jay-Z

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I've always been fascinated with the history of the Plains Indians and the history of the American Indian Movement in the '70s.

Jason Aaron

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Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I'm always learning new things about myself.

Jonathan Van Ness

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I don't like the water. I'm a land guy.

Dean Ambrose

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My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

David Warner

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