David Oyelowo Quotes
Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
Quotes to Explore
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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I can't really recall the first time I was noticed by a producer but the first time I was on television was doing Daytime for Another World, which I started in December '75 and went until December '76.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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When anyone tells me I can't do anything... I'm just not listening any more.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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The fact that President Obama gave up his public holiday (today is the President’s Day) and held the US-Asean Leaders Summit has shown Washington’s recognition towards the importance of Asean
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Rich countries have 'kicked away the ladder' by forcing free-market, free-trade policies on poor countries. Already established countries do not want more competitors emerging through the nationalistic policies they themselves successfully used in the past.
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The doctrine of the Second Coming has failed, so far as we are concerned, if it does not make us realize that at every moment of every year in our lives Donne's question 'What if this present were the world's last night?' is equally relevant.
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Music is like magic. There's a certain feeling you get when you real and you spit and people are feelin' your shit.'
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If you want to become a World Champion you should avoid playing in Open tournaments.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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After Notre Dame, what is there?
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The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
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My life has been sadly lacking in snails. I can't clearly remember any first-hand encounters. The best thing I can come up with is second-hand, a passage in Jacques Pépin's autobiography (The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen) in which he describes prying snails from the terrace of his vacation home and cooking them up for dinner.
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I think when the bottom started to drop out, we didn't recognize it.
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My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
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The business of feeding people is the most amazing business in the world.
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No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody, or the folds of a piece of Titian's drapery, produce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can by reasoning make you feel it.
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Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.
