David Harewood Quotes

When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.

David Harewood

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• Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Balance

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Powerful

• As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Mom

• My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Roles
  • Gender
  • Dysphoric

• The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Time
  • Change
  • Yourself

• I always like to play roles where I either love the character or think that it's a story that I can tell better than anyone else. There are always reasons for me to do whatever I do.

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • Love
  • Character
  • Me

• The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Together
  • Success

• We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • World
  • America
  • Rules

• I do like alternative rock and rap, but as far as inspirational, then I go full-on orchestra. It fills up your entire being.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Up
  • Rock
  • inspirational

• I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Wish
  • Ballet
  • Go

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• What's the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That's what I wanna know!

  

  Parker Posey
  • You
  • Know
  • Personality

• I was quietly rebellious. My parents thought I was very good but secretly I did things like saying I was staying in one place and going somewhere else instead. My older sister was openly rebellious and would tell my parents where to go, but I never did that.

  

  Frances O'Connor
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Sister

• One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Missing

• He seemed to be witnessing with his own eyes the supreme bankruptcy of humanity. Wealth had spoken the truth that night on the mountain.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Truth
  • Night
  • Eyes

• Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Why
  • Violence

• Even when we were still fighting in the bush against the oppressive dictatorships of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, we introduced elections for the committees of the villages under our control.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Control
  • Fighting

• I've asked myself what is the worst thing that can happen if I take this decision and go along with it. Very often, I find that the worst thing that can happen is something that I can live with. And if that's the case, I will do it.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Live
  • Decision

• Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Age
  • Never
  • Tongue

• Krystal’s slow passage up the school had resembled the passage of a goat through the body of a boa constrictor, being highly visible and uncomfortable for both parties concerned.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • School

• You have to keep the recording process open. If you make too many decisions before you go in, you can lose out on those serendipitous moments that can really make a record, that I think are always required in the making of a really good record.

  

  James Mercer Broken Bells
  • Good
  • Moments

• I felt like I had proof that not all days are the same length, not all time has the same weight. Proof that there are worlds and worlds and worlds on top of worlds, if you want them to be there.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • Life
  • World
  • Proof

• When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months later, my manager rang and said: 'They are interested in you.' I read it and I realised, 'Yes, I do want this.' Then I got an email saying I'd got it.

  

  David Harewood