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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

Headline Looking Most Shock
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Apology Body Care Characters
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

Aggressive Better Better Life I Think
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Argument Big Character Director
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Actor Been Better Bigger
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Being Cool Get Happy
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No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
Bird Soar Wings
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
Countries Knows No-One Some
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

Actually Criminal How Ignored
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do.

Truth Sake Convincing Sake
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Accent Could Get Go
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Road Excess Leads Palace
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
African Hold Our Shape
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained

Desire Restrain.weak
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Bad Never School Bookworm
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The less I talk about being black, the better.

About Being Better Black
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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.

About Act Actor Because
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Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
Art Tree Life Science
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actor Been Between Black
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Beach Going Jamaica Now
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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

Glory Christianity Conquer Forgiveness
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

About American Bad Bad Guys
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Am England Excellent Green
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What is now proved was once only imagined.

Imagined Proved Once Now
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

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

Mine Networking Personalities Some
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Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Lives Eternity Sunrise
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

Bike Bikes Days End
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

Comic Ever Kid Man
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To generalize is to be an idiot.

Generalize Idiot
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I tend to stay away from the comics.
Away Comics Stay Tend
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Great Things Men Mountain
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Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.

Always Ready Speak Man
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
Read Bible Night Black
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The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Weak Courage Strong Cunning
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
Name Joy Days Old
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

Sun Moon Doubt Immediately
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Sinister Person Enemy Start
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time
Eternity Love Production Time
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Every harlot was a virgin once.

Harlot Virgin Once
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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

Everything Live Life Delight
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

Love Seeketh Please Build
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Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Woe Sorrow Seek Relief
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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.
Excessive Sorrow Joy Weeps
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Brings Closer Every Home
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You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Beat Gives Just Never
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Bunch Club Determines Dime
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Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Fear Get Never Out
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All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Feel Quit Run Should
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Ask Back Except Get
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