David Oyelowo Quotes

I find that male directors are more interested in what the film looks like as opposed to what the film is about emotionally. My job is not to make the film look pretty, and I don't feel drawn to making myself look pretty within the film.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different... and you can carve that in stone!

Jennifer Damiano

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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

John Polanyi

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I have given myself a Tesla for my 60th birthday.

Stanley Druckenmiller

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I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

Roone Arledge

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Life is full of trials and tribulations. It's dramatic when you don't treat people right when you're in the tribulations, but I know now how to get out of it. You have to make a decision to say 'No more', and then you know what to do when the trials happen.

Mary J. Blige

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I had the time of my life playing Rose in Wes Craven's 'The Girl in the Photographs.' I became so close with the cast and crew, it was hard to leave after we wrapped.

Miranda Rae Mayo

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When I did 'Tapestry' with Carole King, the record was spare and simple, like a demo. If someone had told me to go back and put horns on it, it would've been all wrong. If you're enthusiastic enough to sign an artist, let them do what got you enthusiastic.

Lou Adler

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I'm always interested in working with people who are good team players - that are selfless that way in their interests and dedication to the project.

Diane Paulus

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An IPO-mad technology boom made 'selling out' itself into an honorific.

Alissa Quart

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Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.

William Joyce

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There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

Per Petterson

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I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to the hair salon.

Paz de la Huerta

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