David Oyelowo Quotes
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The truth is, I've been on a team my whole life. I'm the youngest of 7, so I've been training to be an athlete my whole life.
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I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.
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The last album, 'Falling Faster Than You Can Run.' I was really proud of, but then I didn't actually know whether it was going to come out on any label at all. So I didn't know if anyone was going to hear it. Then of course we ended up doing another EP after that called 'Closer.'
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I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like any of them. Maybe stories are cool but my story is different from most people's story. I don't like to compare myself to other people, I like to just be me.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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My mom is, for 89 years old, is extraordinarily open-minded.
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The good man … has learnt to set at naught the injunctions laid upon him by those most lawless rulers of the soul, inspired as he is by his ardent yearning for the freedom whose peculiar heritage it is that it obeys no orders and works no will but its own.
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'I'm not optimistic,' he said. 'The issue clearly flies in the face of the First Amendment. People have a right to tell kids whatever they want about religion.''Do they have a right to push human sacrifice?''Of course not, Mac. But this isn’t human sacrifice. It’s just a church school.''I'm not sure the effect isn’t similar.'
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Love is more than a noun – it is a verb; it is more than a feeling – it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.
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Television is simply automated daydreaming.
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Don't get married to an actress because they're also actresses in bed.
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Love is sacrifice.
