David Harewood Quotes

To be on set with Tom Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie is just fantastic. But during 'Homeland,' I was on set with Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, so I'm used to working with big hitters.

David Harewood

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• Most modern science fiction went to school on 'Dune.' Even 'Harry Potter' with its 'boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny' shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • School
  • Science

• I always wanted to do creative things, but I was really interested in entrepreneurship. My family comes from a very entrepreneurial culture, so business was always something I was interested in.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Family
  • Business
  • Culture

• I really like using the softening cream. It helps me go out there with confidence to do what I need to do, and at the same time, it's very functional and helps keep the hair out of my mouth so I can focus on pitching.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Time
  • Focus
  • Hair

• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Music
  • Important

• To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Me
  • Human
  • Existence

• I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Marriage
  • Class

• Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Work
  • Technology
  • Barriers

• What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Might

• My style is scruffy with a touch of androgyny.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Style
  • Touch
  • Androgyny

• There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Focus
  • Doubt
  • Iran

• We must have the courage to confront dreadful views even in the people we love the most. But that's difficult to do when we cast large segments of our fellow citizens into a basket to be condemned and disparaged, judging them even as we ignore that many of their deplorable traits exist in us, too.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Courage
  • Confront

• It is a great compliment to go out and be recognized. Although, because I basically go home and go to work, there isn't much opportunity for that kind of thing to happen.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Work
  • Great
  • Home

• I do like to make things difficult for myself and my team, just from taking on a challenge, if you like.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Team
  • Myself
  • Challenge

• At no moment do I know what I’m talking about, nor of whom, nor of where, nor how, nor why, but I could employ fifty wretches for this sinister operation and still be short of the fifty-first, to close the circuit, that I know, without knowing what it means.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why

• Orpheus melted the heart of Persephone, but I never had yours I followed you back to the end of the path, but I never found the door

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Door

• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Different

• In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Family
  • Character
  • Age

• If I was a serial killer? How I would kill somebody? I'm actually a very compulsive person ... I'd chainsaw people.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Serial Killer
  • Compulsive

• Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Job
  • Best
  • Press

• Just getting back into the game and making it a game is all heart. It feels bad, though, because we don't give that effort in the beginning and then we start showing the heart when we're about to get blown out. You have to play like that in the beginning and get stronger as the game goes on.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Heart
  • Bad
  • Game

• To be on set with Tom Hiddlestone and Hugh Laurie is just fantastic. But during 'Homeland,' I was on set with Claire Danes and Damian Lewis, so I'm used to working with big hitters.

  

  David Harewood