Ejogo Carmen Quotes

#1. Success for me will be where the body of work I've done afforded me the opportunity to be as good as I can be, and to explore myself and to see what I'm capable of.

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#2. I rarely take time to feel embarrassed. I just figure it's God keeping me humble, and try not to mess up again.

Peggy Perry

#3. I'm guessing that musicals didn't make sense anymore because of the changes in the political environment that began in the late Sixties, an era of self-awareness and social revolutions.

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#4. I make a really delicious eggplant and squash curry that's inspired by Vij of Vij's Restaurant, a great chef and restaurateur in Vancouver. I like to cook that dish because it's really simple, but the flavor is so pungent and intense that I feel like I'm a real chef whenever I create it.

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#5. Leaving my first agent was both my best business decision and my worst business decision. It depends on how I want to look at my career because of opportunities that may have come had I stayed with him and because of the opportunities that did come because I had to fight harder for roles.

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#6. I've stayed away from sexy roles. It's never interested me.

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#7. What I really want is a creative person. You can always hire a Ph.D. to take care of the details.

Richard Gurley Drew

#8. Do not let your light be dimmed by anybody who doesn't appreciate the dream that you're trying to pursue.

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#9. I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the antithesis of the dreamy escapism you found in musicals.

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#10. As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.

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#11. You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.

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#12. Intelligence starts to get pretty dull if it's not coupled with kindness.

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#13. Growing up in London, with a hippie mom, I don't know that I'm most people's definition of what a black person is. I'm mixed, yes, but in the world I'm defined as black before I'm defined white. I've never been called white.

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#14. Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

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#15. Any good director, and I've worked with a few that I would call very good, they know how to disarm any anxieties very quickly.

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#16. I'd love to play a full-out rocking chick.

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#17. One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?

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#18. Coming from the U.K., I can think of so many great songs and musical moments that didn't require a belter of a voice; my favorite singer is Kate Bush and she's not a belter, or PJ Harvey ... I'm definitely more of an alternative girl.

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#19. I feel like I was born an actor. I did not pursue acting until I was a bit older. But I got a taste of it at an earlier age in the UK.

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#20. If you ever see shitty ass rock dudes in shitty ass rock bands asking you to show them your tist for backstage passes, I want you to spit right in their fucking faces and yell 'FUCK YOU!

Gerard Way

#21. For a woman knows the face of the man she loves like a sailor knows the open sea

Honore De Balzac

#22. I was this very precocious kid with a big personality. When my mother saw that modelling was something I enjoyed, she didn't dissuade me.

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#23. The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

Demian Bichir

#24. There are no such things as problems, only solutions!

Lowell Tillman Jr.

#25. I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.

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#26. What statute was violated, if any, in turning a man exactly ninety degrees from everything else?

Robert A. Heinlein

#27. I think there can always be beauty in struggle.

Patricia Arquette

#28. I was not seduced by the celebrity side of acting. However, as a British girl watching a lot of American TV, I saw that there was a whole world of opportunity in the States that I wanted to discover.

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#29. Frustration is an important directional arrow. It shows you where to go to move forward. And what to move away from.

Julie Connor

#30. The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. It can be safer to stay in a comfort zone that's not stretching yourself.

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#31. I wanted to work with Mike Leigh. I had my list of British people I wanted to work with, and I wanted to work with David Lynch and Woody Allen.

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#32. There was a point when I was very young where I remember talking with my mom about going to drama school and this was maybe when I was 8, 9, 10 years old - and she knew that I was also academically very capable, and she steered me in another direction.

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#33. The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.

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#34. I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.

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#35. Coretta Scott King was all about her pearl earrings. At one point, I'm wearing pearl earrings the size of golf balls. They're enormous! She was bold-she knew that she was the Jackie Kennedy of her community.

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#36. Allow your heart to be so wrapped up in God that a guy has to ask for directions to get to it.

Chad Eastham

#37. Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

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#38. You lie through your teeth. You wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls.

Pippa DaCosta

#39. There are many mediocre entertainers who don't aspire to much more than fame and glory. It's very easy to have them as your role models because there aren't as many greats. Go back, discover the greats, and take it from there.

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#40. Way up in my tree I'm sitting by my fire
Wond'rin' where in this world might you be
And knowin' all the time you're still roamin' the countryside
Do you still think about me?

Jimi Hendrix

#41. Art has to address eternal issues.

Duane Michals

#42. Some say death is a doorway,
belief the key. Others claim you only
have to stumble across the threshold
to glimpse a hundred billion universes
in the blink of single silver shard.

Ellen Hopkins

#43. At times as an actor, it's often times unclear as to what the directors envision for a project.

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#44. Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the District of Columbia, parted Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, and wandered for forty years in Delaware.

P. J. O'Rourke