David Oyelowo Quotes

Not every film I do is going to be like 'Selma,' but every film I do can be edifying, can be something that points toward I believe to be true. I'm not one to shy away from darkness in movies as long as there is light.

David Oyelowo

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Never walk into a hospital crying. Have an attitude that you will make someone else's life better.

Jim Kelly

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I don't have a nanny. I have a chef, and I have my assistant, and that's it. I do it myself. You know, those hours with your child are really important ones, even if it's just the two of you, being quiet in the car together.

Melania Trump

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It makes me nuts, the idea that if you put a political struggle at the heart of your book, then it has to be that the author - me - is trying in some way to push my views onto my readers.

Ruth Ozeki

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When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Louis de Bernieres

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To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

Chris Parnell

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While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had to do some writing in my English classes, I tended to do better at it.

Bruce Springsteen

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God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

Archibald Alexander

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There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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I went to a performing arts school. I went to an audition for a musical, 'Les Miserables,' in the West End, and I got in, and my parents were like, 'Oh, you can sing?' So I kind of started singing properly when I was, like, seven.

Anne-Marie

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But as you said, there are going to be those that have no record and cannot be detected in that capacity so that is why you have to have other layers of security.

Asa Hutchinson

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By doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Peter Abelard

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A poetic, sensitive, tortured soul, the Ian Curtis of the myth - he was definitely that.

Peter Hook

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