Antoine Fuqua Quotes
I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.
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There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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You never know how much time you got.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
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The great thing about stage is that you have more control. The stage is yours. The time is yours. Film is really the editor's medium.
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Poetry teaches the enormous force of a few words, and, in proportion to the inspiration, checks loquacity.
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I avoid watching other people's versions of films or plays that I work on.
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We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff at Trump supporters. That's not what our democracy is about. That's not what you do. There's no room for violence. There's no place for shouting. There's no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side - even if you vehemently disagree.
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If becoming a member of Congress is like going to college, then crafting legislation is our homework.
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I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.
