Gugu Mbatha-Raw Quotes

I prefer to focus on the future. There are a lot of new stories to be heard.

When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

Too much we have lived in our history. We must live in the future.

Tradition means nothing. It's about what you do tomorrow as a football club, not what you did yesterday.

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain relevant, regardless of how you do them.

I think about Shakespeare. Because there have been hundreds of variations of Shakespeare's plays since they've been written, and I believe it's because they're important. They're still relevant today. 'Roots' is still relevant today. The idea that we shouldn't tell this story again is very strange to me.

Fashion means never to look too much backwards. It always needs to go forwards.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

An artist or writer always has to move forward. All the time you're trying to improve yourself, or at least look at ways to improve things or make things better. I'm not really one to harp on previous records. I'm always looking forward to what I'm doing now, and what's ahead.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Old ways will always remain unless some one invents a new way and then lives and dies for it

Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

Frankly, I like new things. I feel like I made a contribution to building a more interactive world. And I'm proud of that.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

I think we are living in a time, where as a whole, as a community, people do want to push the boundaries.

Innovation is very important to me, especially professionally. The alternative, standing pat, leads to complacency, rigidity and eventually failure.

It's not enough to be up to date, you have to be up to tomorrow.

I'm always interested in what's next or what is the new kind of thinking.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

Our philosophy is about reaching back to move forward. We have something different to say with a sensibility that is both old and new.

We know that dreams fuel innovation.

I don't like to say something's weird when it's innovative and fresh.

Scientists are the enemies of tradition , and tradition own all the prisons. - Victor Vigny

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.