David Oyelowo Quotes

People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.

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• We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • World
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  • Eye

• A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • World
  • Work
  • Women

• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • America
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• The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.

  

  Rafael Correa
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  • Construction

• I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.

  

  Jack Dorsey
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• My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.

  

  Ted Dekker
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• It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
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  • Wine

• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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  • Life
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• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
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• Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

  

  Ramsey Clark
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• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
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• I have been acting since I was thirteen.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
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• The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'

  

  Gail O'Grady
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• I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.

  

  Kate Forsyth
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• I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.

  

  Fran Kranz
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• There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• Who doesn't know about Bollywood? After all, we churn out movies in such great quantities every year! People across the globe know Shekhar Kapur.

  

  Arjun Rampal
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• My parents moved back to New York from Florida when I was in the ninth grade.

  

  Sanford I. Weill
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• When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

  

  Anna Kournikova
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• Don Donald was clearly accustomed to addressing people whose only way of responding was to nod worshipfully and take notes. He did not, in other words, leave a lot of breaks in his testimony to allow for discussion. For the moment, that was fine, since it made it easier for Richard to drink.

  

  Neal Stephenson
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• 'The Last Airbender' is genetically engineered for me. I love martial arts. I study it. The movie's based on a lot of Buddhist and Hindu philosophy. I was raised Hindu.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
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• People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.

  

  David Oyelowo
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