Antoine Fuqua Quotes
Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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Maintaining a sense of humor is key to getting people to also focus on the crises at hand.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.
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It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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I want to make it to Heaven and be as good an influence on others as I can in that process.
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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My grandmother, grandfather, my mom - we've always been driven by laughter. It's what held us together. Thanksgivings, any kind of family get-together, we usually end up in tears.
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I'm compulsively on time. It drives me insane when people are late.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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We pushed our first record, 'Boomerang,' to different labels, but it was hard for them to see though the 'white guys singing R&B' thing.
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You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
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You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
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No matter what happens, if I get pushed down, I’m going to come right back up.
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It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
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I think sometimes we seem to obsess on negativity.
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Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.
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Truth never was indebted to a lie.
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Westerns are simple stories where there's good and there's evil and where people had a sense of space and freedom. Growing up in the city, as a kid, you've never really seen that before. It's a beautiful dream to go from concrete to big skies, dirt and horses.
