David Oyelowo Quotes
If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.
Quotes to Explore
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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You don't fight ideas with bombs.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.
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We are more and more into technology. Everything is texting, and everything is instant. Flowers are completely impractical as a method of communication when you could just send a text.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical.
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Sometimes the buzz of reading about others eating comes from the voyeuristic thrill of seeing how the other half lives: the gold leaf and truffles or - in the case of Trimalchio's feast in Petronius' 'Satyricon' - the dormice and honey.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.
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The research in Ralph Keyes' The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
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If you're going to play human beings, and you're going to play them three-dimensionally, you have to show every side of them.
