David Oyelowo Quotes
I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.
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For heaven's sakes, in the newspaper days, when we had competing newspapers, and the newsstands sale was as important as the circulation - as the agreed-upon circulation, whatever you call that - in those days, why, gosh, the sensationalism was tremendous.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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It is up to us to make the right choice and the right decisions.
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I'm not saying 'I have cerebral palsy, pay attention to me.' We all have problems, and we have to figure out how to live our best life.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
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Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.
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You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.
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Our emotional intelligence determines our potential for learning the practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships
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Our body is there right now. You did not have to earn a thing. It is a gift. You are a hero every time you step out of your front door to do some exercise.
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I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!
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You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn't.
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I've done for the most part pretty much what I intended - I ended up doing comedy, writing and painting. I've had a ball. And as I get older, I just become an older kid.
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I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.
