Elba Quotes

• In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.

  Idris Elba

  Country, Knows

  FaceBook post by Idris Elba from Oct 16, 2013

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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.

  Idris Elba

  Careers, Next, Firsts

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• Exile is a dream of a glorious return. Exile is a vision of revolution: Elba, not St Helena. It is an endless paradox: looking forward by always looking back. The exile is a ball hurled high into the air.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Air, Vision

  Salman Rushdie (1989). “The Satanic Verses”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

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• Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

  Nicolas Cage

  Bigger Than Life, Actors, Larger Than Life

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rose, Lace

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• The monster has escaped Elba!" "The tyrant has landed at Cannes!" "Bonaparte meets the troops." "Napoleon approaches Paris." "His Imperial Majesty has entered the capital.

  David Frum

  Tyrants, Paris, History

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