David Oyelowo Quotes

I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 1, 1976

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I was under the impression that if you've read one vampire series for young adults, you've read them all.

Andrew Shaffer

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When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.

Robert Redford

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Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

Jeffrey Bernard

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There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on 'The Jamie Foxx Show.'

John Ridley

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We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

Robert Falcon Scott

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What surprised me most about the Donner tragedy was that, given the terrible circumstances, how anyone survived at all.

Rodman Philbrick

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I've been around the world seven times, been stabbed three times, been down in an airplane, and once dated the Bearded Lady.

Roddy Piper

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Some artists are bound to an image: Bob Marley has dreadlocks, Matisyahu has a beard. But that's a reminder that the whole thing is not about style. It's about music.

Matisyahu

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Written reports stifle creativity.

Ross Perot

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More often than not, whenever gossip has been written about me, the gossip is more interesting than the reality. I know some public figures hate gossip, but personally I like it because it makes my life sound more glamorous and interesting than it really is.

Moby

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I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

Joshua Leonard

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Creating a sustainable, economic, social, and ecological environment that provides everyone the opportunity to succeed is my mission in Congress.

Jared Polis

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