David Harewood Quotes
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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I read a lot of highly unsuitable books for an 11-year-old. I was desperate to read as widely as possible. I thought, 'There are so many places I am never going to get the chance to visit, but I can if I read them.' And I did. I could go anywhere in the world - and off it - by reading.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.
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Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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I have tried every diet to lose weight. When you restrict yourself, you're setting yourself up for failure.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.
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When medical students focus on helping others, they're able to weather the slings and arrows of long hours and devastating health outcomes: they know their colleagues and patients are depending on them.
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Duesberg is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is absolutely correct that the virus cultured in the laboratory may not be the cause of AIDS.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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Making money ain't nothing exciting to me. ... You might be able to buy a little better booze than some wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you're just as graveyard dead as he is.
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It is important that we relish the food we eat. If we cannot do this, but eat mechanically, our food does not do us that good it should, and we fail to be nourished and built up by it as we otherwise would be, if we could enjoy the food we take into the stomach.
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I've grown up being obsessed by 'Harry Potter.'
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Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that.
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I have known Farley Mowat all of my life, from reading his books as a child to becoming a close friend of his over the last three decades.
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To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
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I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.
