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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I make a sincere effort to do some form of exercise every day, except for Sunday. That's church and hang out day.
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I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.
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And before you ask, I don't ask what equipment my lovers have, merely if they want to play.
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That's the great paradox of living on this earth, that in the midst of great pain you can have great joy as well. If we didn't have those things we'd just be numb.
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Advising Mrs. Harris was the least I could do," David said smoothly. "After all, she was the one who brought me and my late wife together." That was stretching it a bit, since all Charlotte had done was give Sarah lessons in how to avoid fortune hunters, thus ensuring that the recalcitrant girl went right out and married the first one who approached her.
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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.
