David Harewood Quotes

If you're black and have leukemia, the chances of finding a donor are drastically reduced. I added my name to the register, and lo and behold, six months later, I was asked to donate. I had a week of 'conditioning' where I had to take these pills and injections to create new stem cells in my body.

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• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Thinking
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Nice
  • Play
  • Group

• The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Kind
  • Human
  • Monsters

• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • See
  • Go

• I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Love
  • She
  • Night

• Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Important

• All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Out

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Myself
  • Player
  • Never

• Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Die

• I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Find
  • Same
  • Loyalty

• I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Think
  • Guy

• My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Secret

• All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.

  

  Aaliyah
  • God
  • Hope
  • Hands

• I'm going to prove to the fans, going to prove to my teammates, that I can be a better defensive player, offensive player, to win games.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Player
  • Better
  • Win

• Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Style
  • Hair
  • Dress

• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Way
  • Knowledge
  • Intuition

• I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Evil
  • Thought
  • TV

• I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • School
  • Home
  • Book

• Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders.

  

  Megan Gallagher
  • Theatre

• If you're black and have leukemia, the chances of finding a donor are drastically reduced. I added my name to the register, and lo and behold, six months later, I was asked to donate. I had a week of 'conditioning' where I had to take these pills and injections to create new stem cells in my body.

  

  David Harewood
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