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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Iranians defend and present their Islamic and Iranian identity to other people worldwide.
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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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The good ideas will survive.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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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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I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.
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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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'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.
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My parents didn't know how to provide me with the encouragement I needed to achieve my dreams.
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My brother Trevor is theatrically trained. I used to watch him when I was younger and I was in love with it. It just seemed really fun to be someone else. So I begged my mom; she was hesitant, but she eventually allowed me. And it turned out well, I guess.
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I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.
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In the summer of 2012 - and we do as we do when we get together to brainstorm an idea - we were both probably eating grilled cheese and watching 'Oprah's Favorite Things,' so it will never end, and we both brought a few things to the table of what we wanted our next project to be. And Jessica said, 'What if we raised a baby together?'
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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.
