Arthur Jafa Quotes
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of beauty and optimism, but you also come away with an awareness of the huge gulf between what most of us have and what most of them have to make do with. Then, every now and then, a famine or a war makes everything a hundred times worse.
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A European army must protect the continent from two sides, from the east and from the south, in terms of protecting against terrorism and migration.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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I write exactly as I speak, so therefore I would not say any writer influenced me at all.
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That is one dark house your God lives in, man. Alec shook his head. You can keep your Age of Faith. Whyn’t you find somebody to worship who isn’t a shracking psychopath?
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Sometimes, you feel like you've sold your soul. But if I win the lottery, I'm going to buy it back.
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It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.
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A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
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I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.
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The media has brainwashed the electorate to expect the government to do something. The best economic policy of any government is to do nothing but reduce the size of the government, reduce the size of the laws, and reduce the size of regulations.
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I'm very fortunate.
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I don't feel that much fear.
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Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul.
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small volume. And you can do that with the motions of stars. The way the star moves around the center of the galaxy is very much like the way the planets orbit the sun.
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I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of black music. That's my big goal. The larger preoccupation is how do we force cinema to respond to the existential, political, and spiritual dimensions of who we are as a people.
