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I tend to stay away from the comics.
Away Comics Stay Tend
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

Between Certain Certain Things Characters
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Because Came Come Deeply
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.

Against Anything Being Business
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Acting Always Ambition Had
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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.

About Because Come Culture
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.

About Clinic Contribution Cousin
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If you are going to call a film a 'black film' then you have to make a film that represents everyone that's black, which is almost impossible. That is why white films are not called white films, they are just called 'films.'

Almost Black Call Everyone
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

Age Feel Hard Like
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

About Anything Cast Casting
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I would never be fearful of any character.
Any Character Fearful Never
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I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

Criticized Dude Films Get
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I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

Actor Am Different Different Roles
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
Goin Back Yesterday Different
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“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.”

World Great Puzzle
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If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

Business World Great Faster
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Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Begin End Stop
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If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Know Goind Road There
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The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday – but never jam today.
Rule Jam Tomorrow Yesterday
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Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.

Best Gift Lifetime Adventures
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While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit

Laughter Joy Mockery Opportunities
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“I’d give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life’s decay, to be once more a little child for one bright summer day.”

Wealth Piled Decay Bright
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“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”

Deep Secrets Life Really
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“Courtesy while you’re thinking what to say. It saves me time.”
Courtesy Thinking Saves Time
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“I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”

Give Advice Seldom Follow
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When you are describing, a shape, a sound, or tint; Don’t state the matter plainly, but put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, with a sort of mental squint.

Shape Sound Tint Mental
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“You’re entirely bonkers. But I tell you a secret, all the best people are.”

Bonkers Secret Best People
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“You must close your eyes, otherwise you won’t see anything.”

Close Eyes See Anything
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Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
Everything Moral Find
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It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.

Poor Memory Backward
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Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.

Take Care Sense Sound
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“No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.”

Wise Fish Anywhere Porpoise
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“Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality.”

Imagination Weapon War Reality
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“If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you. Is that a bargain?”
Believe Bargain
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“Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.”

Read Direction Directly Directed
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“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

Fairy-tales Happened Fancied Middle
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“That’s the reason they’re called lessons, the Gryphon remarked: because they lessen from day to day.”

Reason Lesson Lessen Gryphon
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“I’m not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.”

Strange Weird Crazy Reality
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Life, what is it but a dream?
Life Dream
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“She who saves a single soul, saves the universe.”

Saves Soul Universe
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“The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.”

Hurrier Behinder
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“Better say nothing at all. Language is worth a thousand pounds a word.”

Better Language Pound Words
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“Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”

Everything Funny Laugh
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I would rather die and come to Jesus Christ than be king over the entire earth. Him I seek who died for us; Him I love who rose again because of us.

Again Because Christ Come
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

Christ Death Desire Died
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May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Beasts Bones Christ Come
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.

Am Beasts Become Bread
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It is outrageous to utter the name of Jesus Christ and live in Judaism.
Christ Jesus Jesus Christ Judaism
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

Appears Bishop Catholic Catholic Church
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

Attain Beasts Begin Bones
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