David Oyelowo Quotes
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up watching movies thinking, 'That's what I want to do when I grow up.' I didn't really particularly know I had an aptitude for it.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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I feel like I've exhausted guys and male friendships.
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To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.
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Being in the space that I am as a writer, and just as a black dude in America, there's this push to be cool or be what you're expected to be. There's a need for a song that puts that in perspective. I think that's an important thing for young children to hear growing up.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.
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I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up watching movies thinking, 'That's what I want to do when I grow up.' I didn't really particularly know I had an aptitude for it.
