David Oyelowo Quotes
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am.
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Grieve not; though the journey of life be bitter, and the end unseen, there is no road which does not lead to an end.
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Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
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One of the nice things about acting is that it allows you to open up to the other people within you.
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Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.
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I will, till the day I die, be an advocate for the d-word: diversity.
