David Harewood Quotes
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
Quotes to Explore
-
If your aim is to attack the United States, it is hard to imagine a more difficult way of getting here than by posing as a refugee.
-
In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
-
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
-
I wouldn't say no to becoming a Bond girl. Making it in Hollywood has been my dream ever since I was little, watching Marilyn Monroe movies. To star in a Bond movie would be bliss on a stick.
-
In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
-
I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
-
Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
-
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
-
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
-
I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
-
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
-
I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
-
I work with directors who haven't had the experience of being on sets as much as I have. I feel like, in a way, if it's an independent movie, I can teach the crew to kind of relax, or create a vibe. It really is about a vibe.
-
I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
-
I like to hike with my dog, Webster. It helps clear my mind.
-
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
-
A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.
-
I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
-
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
-
He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
-
A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
-
I always save a huge book for a flight, because then you read it at both airports and on the plane and by the time you get home you're a quarter of the way through and it doesn't feel so unmanageable any more.
-
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it.
-
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
