Haile Gerima Quotes
For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
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Everything with Marvel is on a need-to-know basis, so I didn't officially know until the second episode I did, which I think was the 10th episode in the season. Information is carefully guarded over there. I definitely didn't know that I was 'Deathlok.'
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You don't think about the danger. The spaceship becomes your home.
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Somebody gets to be smart and somebody gets to be dumb. If we win, it'll be because of the president. And if we lose, it'll be because of me.
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When I was a child, I used to paint intently. The older I become, and the closer death approaches, the brighter my life gets day by day.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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We know taking care of an infant isn't just women's work - so why should maternity leave be the norm when paternity leave is the exception? There's no question that taking care of and bonding with a new baby is just as important and meaningful for dads as it is for moms.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
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I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
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This is a simple change that will provide a huge financial boost for many Americans, particularly low- to moderate-income families. It is an important step in making sure we do everything we can to encourage all Americans to save and plan for the future.
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I think it's an individual thing. Your mountains are my molehills.
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But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.
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I usually work really instinctively and it's afterwards that I think about what it means. I don't know consciously that I have these themes that run through my work.
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For any movement to emerge, it has to be innovatively independent from the mainstream cinema, and I don't see that much.
