David Oyelowo Quotes
My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
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I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Sexual dreams aren't usually about sex.
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The Mavericks and I have mutually agreed that it's in the best interest of both parties for me to step away from the team.
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Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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The common thread in all my projects is 'girls being awesome.' Can we make that a genre?
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It's not weird being recognised, but it's weird having to stop what you're doing to take pictures or sign something. But the fans are the reason you have your success, so it comes with the territory.
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To write convincingly, I think you must be able to relate, in some way, to what a character is experiencing.
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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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I think it's a mistake to treat different realms of knowledge as if they are some how fundamentally the same.
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There is a point. I don't know what it is, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt—it meant something.
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My grandfather was the king of a region in western Nigeria, where I had the privilege to live for seven years while growing up. But what we think of as royalty in the U.K. is very different to royalty in Nigeria: if you were to throw a stone there, you would hit about 30 princes.
