"Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes."

-- Idris Elba

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“They (Americans) have their national game, baseball - which is cricket played with a strong American accent - and they have a national language, entirely their own, unlike any other language spoken on the earth.”
“Directing was a natural thing for me. Actually, it was far less stressful directing than being the lead actor. I was able to have my input in all aspects of it.”
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”

Source : Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt
“I had to face the possibility that the art of living in the way of Jesus was no longer carried on in a holistic way by any single tradition.”
“Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco”
“I'd like to be remembered for being a good-hearted soul that left this planet better than I found it.”
“It was tumultuous, it was crazy, but I would not trade it for anything.”
“Drop a grain of California gold into the ground, and there it will lie unchanged until the end of time; . . . drop a grain of our blessed gold [wheat] into the ground and lo! a mystery.”

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