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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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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I think Sephora is great; it's so accessible, and there are so many different palettes that you can get.
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It's funny, because when you're younger you're in a rush to be 18 or 21 or whatever. But then you hit 30. And now, the days go by like hours. You think, 40, man, this could be the halfway point. It could be the three-quarters point, you know? Who knows?
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To be called an elder statesman is so unbelievably insulting. Brad Pitt is exactly three years younger than me.
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Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.
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My kitchen is not a place to live in. I made it white so I can tell instantly if it's not clean-and I like it clean enough to be able to eat off the floors-or the tables,for that matter.
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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.
