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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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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.
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It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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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.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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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.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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I was on the committee that helped raise the minimum wage here in Seattle. I introduced a statewide bill to raise the minimum wage in Washington state my first year in the state senate, and I really believe that raising the federal minimum wage, while not the answer to everything, addresses a lot of the issues at the very bottom.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.
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It's an immensely competitive business, and I can tell you the older you get, the parts are fewer, and the people who are proven performers are greater.
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People will become what you think of them. See them for their beauty and they will rise up. See them for their darkness, and they will fall.
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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.
