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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.
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'What’s Hell?' inquired Wild-Eye. 'You should visit before you pass judgement on a place. And have you never heard it said, the Dark One is a gentleman?'
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When a parent denies a child its 'parent time,' that parent is denying the child its child support - its psychological child support.
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I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
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Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.
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I am playing with the assumptions that we have in our everyday life when we are tripped up or fooled and we learn something, that makes things exciting - I am having fun with that stuff, but you have to manage it so it doesn't get too cute, that's what I trying to work toward.
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What we're seeing is an era where governments and huge organizations such as the IOC don't have accountability. They don't have accountability to the athletes they are supposed to be protecting and they don't have accountability to the truth. What we've seen out of Russia is a continual denial, no matter what has been presented. They are still blaming Grigory Rodchenkov as an individual who did this all on his own.
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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I really would have liked to love, but I didnt trust myself to allow it.
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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.
