Ethiopia Quotes

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

~ Ruth Negga

Back Become Complacency Complacent History I Think Keep Know Leads Referring Repeating Think Understand

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I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

~ Ruth Negga

Art I Think Important Really Risk Something Think You

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I think if you want to make a performance authentic, there are a certain amount of leaps of faith into the unknown that you have to take. Otherwise, you're not really risking anything. I think if you don't risk something in art, it's not really important.

~ Ruth Negga

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I think it's a good thing for everybody that we see the entire world reflected back at us on our screens.

~ Ruth Negga

A Good Thing Back Entire Entire World Everybody Good Good Thing I Think Our Reflected Screens See Thing Think Us World

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I think kids are amazing. You kind of just deal with stuff, don't you? It's only years later that you have to spend thousands in therapy.

~ Ruth Negga

Amazing Deal I Think Just Kids Kind Later Only Spend Stuff Therapy Think Thousands Years You

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I think that is important, to not make people feel alien.

~ Ruth Negga

Alien Feel I Think Important Make People Think

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I trained, went to college, trained, and got a job. Then got another job. When I wasn't working I worked at a bar, then got another job.

~ Ruth Negga

Another Bar College Got Job Then Trained Worked Working

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I use the term 'spine' for people when I think that they may seem on the surface sort of reticent, shy, self-deprecating, shying away from the spotlight. Quiet.

~ Ruth Negga

Away I Think May People Quiet Seem Self-Deprecating Shy Sort Spine Spotlight Surface Term Think Use

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I was an attention seeker, always in trouble.

~ Ruth Negga

Always Attention Seeker Trouble

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I was moved by the 'Lovings' story because of my own background as a mixed-race person.

~ Ruth Negga

Background Because Moved My Own Own Person Story

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I work best when there's a safety trampoline of kindness.

~ Ruth Negga

Best Kindness Safety Trampoline Work

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I'm all for philosophical debates about race, but if you look at history, you see that the status quo has power when it's unchallenged. So these conversations about inequality are crucial.

~ Ruth Negga

About Conversations Crucial Debates History Inequality Look Philosophical Power Quo Race See Status Status Quo You

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I'm always very careful to say I'm Irish-Ethiopian because I feel Ethiopian and I look Ethiopian and I am Ethiopian. But there are 81 languages in Ethiopia, and I don't know any of them.

~ Ruth Negga

Always Am Any Because Careful Ethiopia Feel I Am I Feel Know Languages Look Say Them Very

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I'm interested in the idea that we all start off as these lovely little babies with all this potential but that circumstances mean that we don't always live the life we should.

~ Ruth Negga

Always Babies Circumstances Idea Interested Life Little Live Lovely Mean Off Potential Should Start

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I'm not in any rush to get anywhere. There's a pressure on actors to get somewhere before it's over. But everyone wants longevity, don't they? It's a career. Why be that flash-in-the-pan, taking every job out of worry it'll soon be over?

~ Ruth Negga

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I'm not the most articulate person.

~ Ruth Negga

Articulate Most Person

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I'm shy at public speaking, which is tough.

~ Ruth Negga

Public Public Speaking Shy Speaking Tough Which

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I've always been very talkative, very chatty, quite hyperactive. I grew up with a lot of cousins, and most of them were boys. Four in particular and I were the demolition squad. Havoc.

~ Ruth Negga

Always Been Boy Cousins Four Grew Havoc Lot Most Particular Quite Squad Talkative Them Up Very Were

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I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

~ Ruth Negga

Always American American History Civil Civil Rights Full Had History Interest People Rights Sort Stop Struggle Who

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I've gone into auditions, and I think they have an assumption about me when they see my photo, and then I open my mouth, and they say, 'Where exactly are you from? And you were born in Ethiopia? But you're Irish, but you also kind of sound English. That's really strange.'

~ Ruth Negga

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Abraham Polonsky

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