David Oakes Quotes
I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.
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If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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You know, the way I'm accepted, I almost feel like Judy Garland, truly. It makes no sense to me because I don't think that I've been any more outspoken... Or maybe I have, I don't know. But everyone I know supports anything that has to do with raising money or with AIDS.
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To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.
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I am sensitive to the fact that other people may have different beliefs.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
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I think we need to start with Philadelphia and make sure that we actually get some election reform in Philadelphia. Actually, a recent election was thrown out by a federal judge because of corruption with the voting process in Philadelphia.
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When you reach a certain age, you have fulfilled your childhood dream and whatever your first or second adulthood led you to do. Then you're in your third adulthood, the one that leads to the grave, and you ask yourself, "What will I do between now and then?" Instead of thinking in terms of glamour, you start thinking in terms of reform - your contribution to the world.
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Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.
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I don't really have dream roles. Every single time I've gotten a great job, it's far exceeded my expectations and my dreams.
