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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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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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 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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I just lost interest in performing.
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Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.
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I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.
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You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.
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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.
