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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Souls cannot be saved without exertion.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.
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I was rambunctious - a boy's boy, full of energy. I wasn't a bad kid. I just liked to talk.
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We do nothing for children between the ages of zero and five. And we seem to be quite happy to have children growing up in not just poverty, which wouldn't be so bad, but isolation, lack of people around them, lack of support, lack of ability to go out and play in the dirt.
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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.
