Antoine Fuqua Quotes
You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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Writing songs is an essential part of my life: my mother teaches piano, and I have inherited my grandparents' passion for music, especially from my grandfather Tommy, who was a great drummer. It's no coincidence that I play the drums best, but I am also good with the guitar and the piano.
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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The business of America is business.
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If you have a line of business - I know this as a CEO - or if you have a teenager - I know this as a parent - who have a spending problem, what do you do? You quit giving them money.
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Today, people idolize athletes and celebrities - and yes, highly successful and visionary business people like Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but not the innovators who perhaps have not seen such high-flying levels of success. Can anyone name the inventors of GPS, which has such a huge impact on our lives today?
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along.
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Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
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There are movies and TV shows I wish we didn't make, sure, but we're in the business of creating things that are not all going to work.
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A goal of mine is to try and be as real as possible. To try and not comment on the work I'm doing but just do it.
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I play the guitar every day.
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Being an actor is often very tedious, which is why it helps hugely if your fellow cast members are also good friends.
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Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.
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You have to feed your soul and spirit, but you also have to be a professional and remember the business that you're in. Everything is not your passion project.
