Sophie Okonedo quotes

“I dont like going for more than a year without doing theater. I dont mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel Im open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.”
-- Sophie Okonedo

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“I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black”
-- Sophie Okonedo

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“I never watch anything I do. I really would rather just not know at all how I come across.”
-- Sophie Okonedo

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“Im drawn to stories about ordinary people who get tangled up in an extraordinary event or idea or emotion. Im not saying I dont love films about super-people or super-doctors, but my preference is for stories about how we get through this life, what it is to be human, because Im always struggling with it myself.”
-- Sophie Okonedo

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“My main form of exercise is my bike. I dont have a car, so I cycle everywhere.”
-- Sophie Okonedo

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“As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.”
-- Sophie Okonedo

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“I do love being an actress. The other stuff, the fame, well - you know what? - you dont actually have to buy into it if you dont want to.”
-- Sophie Okonedo

Source : "'There wasn't a minute I didn't love being Winnie'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2010.

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“When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son."”

“Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt.”

“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.”

“In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.”

Source : "The First World War". Book by A. J. P. Taylor , p. 165, 1963.

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.”

Source : A. A. Gill (2008). “Paper view: the best of the Sunday Times television reviews”, Orion Pub Co

“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”

“As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers

“So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.”

Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press