David Oyelowo Quotes

For me, I'm always looking for opportunities to work with people who are better than me, who are more experienced than me, people from whom I can learn. And who could I learn more from than someone with an unprecedented movie star career that has spanned over thirty years whose name is Tom Cruise?

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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By the time I wrote my memoir, 'Men We Reaped,' I had been running from writing it for a long time. When the events in the book were happening, I knew I'd probably write about them one day. I didn't want to. I'd studied fiction, and I was committed to establishing myself as a fiction writer first.

Jesmyn Ward

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What you don't want to do is to hang on to the aging superstar past his prime and take resources away you can otherwise use to build a better overall team.

Tom Hicks

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I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

Tom Sizemore

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Paul Ryan wants his weekends free? Fine - let's give him all 365 days free.

Tom Tancredo

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I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

Tom Cruise

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My predictions are notably inaccurate.

Robert Caro

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I would be remiss if I didn't say that it has been troubling for me to work within an institution that does not seem to recognize that I am a statistic.

Roger Ross Williams

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When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

Michio Kaku

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Believe in God, for with the grace of God the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

Mohammed Omar

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People have been afraid of me because of the parts I played. Nobody remembers that I was the dad in 'Free Willy.'

Michael Madsen

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A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

Christian Dior

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I used to play against a high school football team that always used to run the single wing. And eventually, other teams figured out that they ran the single wing. And so they prepared for it. The Democrats are stuck running the single wing.

Cory Gardner

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