David Harewood Quotes
I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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I like things simple.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.
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My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
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I don't like to direct myself.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.
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I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
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I started working at age thirteen. I'm a product of public schools, I'm a product of a public university. I started my first company when I was 21. I've subsequently never worked for anybody else. I started that first business when I was still in college.
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I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
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For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.
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To do the writing, I have to have time to do research.
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I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
