David Oyelowo Quotes
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
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We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.
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Filmmaking is not a job but a social responsibility for me.
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The sixty-minute drama form has become very rich.
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
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Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.
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I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.
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If you're not buying recycled products, you're not really recycling.
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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
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I have always been interested in fashion and even contemplated being a fashion designer at one point of time.
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American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is.
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I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.
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My mother wanted very much to play tennis; she wanted, most of all, to be a singer and play the piano.
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When violence is real and you flinch away from it, violence does not push people to try and imitate that. Often, we shun the violence that makes us flinch, because it disturbs us. And what makes us uncomfortable and disturbs us is not often bad. What disturbs us will not make us imitate that.
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If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.
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I love tennis, love it!
