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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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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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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We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.
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He John Ruskin knows a great deal more about my pictures than I do; he puts things into my head, and points out meanings in them that I never intended.
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I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.
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Overall, you know, no state in our country has been hurt more by the eight years of Barack Obama than Wyoming has been, and whether it's the absolutely unconstitutional role that the EPA is playing and the president trying to kill our coal industry - Wyoming is the nation's largest coal-producing state. So when President Obama and Hillary Clinton say they're gonna put coal out of business, it hits us harder than just about anyplace else.
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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.
