David Oyelowo Quotes
I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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God's Word is alive and powerful! When you declare these words over your life, the truth of God's Word draws forth the seeds of love that God deposits into us when we invite Jesus to be our Lord and Savior.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.
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The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
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We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
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With the increasing importance of standards for system-level objects such as COM and CORBA, it is particularly important that the C++ bindings to those be clean, well documented, and simple to use.
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I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
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I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
