David Oyelowo Quotes
The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.David Oyelowo
Quotes to Explore
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff -
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
Rachel Griffiths -
Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.
Pamela Anderson -
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky -
I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
Rafael Nadal
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
Olly Murs -
The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
Adam Dell -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
Yogi Berra -
Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
Yair Lapid -
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
Owen Hart -
Every anti-gay remark from the Church gives the thug a license to be cruel.
Ian Mckellen -
I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
Larry Kramer -
I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
Baba Kalyani -
I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
Olga Fonda -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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Tahiti is very far away, and I knew that I should never see it again. A chapter of my life was closed, and I felt a little nearer to inevitable death.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I like working in theatre now and I think that once you've done a certain amount of films most actors love working in the theatre because of the camaraderie.
Francesca Annis -
Shane McAnally is a really good friend of mine. He's one of the first guys that really embraced what I was doing with an open mind.
Sam Hunt -
I grew up as an only child, so inherently, most of my life was centered around me. My parents taught me to play well with others and to share my toys, but I was still an only child who didn't have to share my parent's attention with siblings. As great as my childhood was, I always wanted brothers and sisters.
Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band -
I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
Mary Augusta Ward -
The only way I get a leading role in a studio picture is if Ryan Gosling can't play it, which is clearly the case with 'Selma.' If this was a non-colour-specific character, it wouldn't be me. It just wouldn't.
David Oyelowo