David Harewood Quotes
We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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I look up to Rihanna and Rita Ora. They obviously wear a lot of gold jewelry and have this urban feel to them.
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As you keep your mind and heart focused in the right direction, approaching each day with faith and gratitude, I believe you will be empowered to live life to the fullest and enjoy the abundant life He has promised you!
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When my father came over here penniless with $100 sewn into his underwear, thank God some well-meaning liberal didn't come put his arm around him and say, 'Let me take care of you.'
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts. Also I wanted that, if Bond took his clothes off, he looked like a man who did what he did, which was kill people for a living. I thought the only way to do that was to work out and get fit and buff and get physically into shape.
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Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
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The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
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And you're not happy but you're funny and I'm tripping over my joy. I just keep on gettin up again.
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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma’ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
