David Oyelowo Quotes
I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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All government, of course, is against liberty.
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I want to take IBM back to its roots.
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If you're a young actor, unless you're on a very short list at the studios, we have to be very creative about moving your career along. Otherwise, all we can do is hope to get lucky and find that perfect role that pops you into stardom.
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I read in the papers how much I'm earning and fall about laughing because I'm sure it's not that much; otherwise, I'd have an enormous boat. I'm literally not the slightest bit interested in money. I just don't pay any attention to money; it's rather vulgar.
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During the Holocene, we undoubtedly altered our environment significantly, clearing land, diverting water and building great cities.
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I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.
