David Harewood Quotes
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Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.
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What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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Every year, I take 10 of my best friends from high school on a trip. That's kind of my way for saying thanks to them for being so loyal, for keeping me honest, and for just being great friends throughout this craziness.
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To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
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My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
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By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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I do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
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If I was going to make a broad generalisation, I'd say that I prefer the company of women. People know now that I live with Mike Figgis, but I prefer not to talk about it. On one level, privacy is important, but on another level I have no desire to deny certain things.
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Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
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We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.
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I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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The relationship between me and President Mandela right at the beginning was not a very well-established relationship. It was based on two meetings.
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Bravery is believing in yourself, and that thing nobody can teach you.
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I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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Poetry seems to be the only weapon able to beat language, using language's own means.
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I'm a big believer that if there's something you really want to do, don't walk away because of the deal.
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I love the stage, but it doesn't pay the mortgage.
