"I turned down a lot of easier opportunities in order to go for the things that I really and ultimately wanted to do. And what's really nice is that it's starting to work. I've been an actor for coming up on 14 years now and the level of activity that's taking place now is a culmination of a slow cooker approach to as opposed to a microwave."

-- David Oyelowo

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“Unhappiness does not come from the way things are, but from the difference between how things are and how we think they should be”
“If you are going to abolish slavery, that opens up all these other questions: what system of labor is going to replace slave labor? What system of race relations is going to replace the race relations of slavery? Who is going to have power in the post-war South? The Emancipation Proclamation doesn't answer that question, but it throws [it] open.”

Source : "Eric Foner on the Perennial Relevance of Abraham Lincoln". Interview with Aaron Leonard, historynewsnetwork.org. October 4, 2010.
“In the three minutes it takes the song to play I'm caught in a magic world of harmony and joy, a truly ecstatic joy, where the aching longing to be somewhere else, out of this city, out of this country, out of this body and out of this life, is kept at bay.”

Source : Christos Tsiolkas (1995). “Loaded”, Random House Australia
“Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing.”

Source : "The Laws Of The Public Policy Process" by Morton Blackwell (Law #31), www.leadershipinstitute.org. March 19, 2015.
“If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.”
“Alexander McQueen's designs are all about bringing contrasts together to create startling and beautiful clothes and I hope that by marrying traditional fabrics and lacework, with a modern structure and design we have created a beautiful dress for Catherine on her wedding day.”

Source : "Sarah Burton Speaks About Her Role as Kate's Wedding Dress Designer" by Veronique Hyland, www.harpersbazaar.com. Apr 29, 2011.
“One day if I do go to heaven...I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”
“If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.”

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