Antoine Fuqua Quotes
Every time I look through the lens with Denzel, I'm like a 12-year-old kid. It's hard for me to look at the monitor because the fun is in watching him.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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I want to direct what I feel is interesting - not what is supposed to be my zone.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I hate banks. They do nothing positive for anybody except take care of themselves. They're first in with their fees and first out when there's trouble.
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For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
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It's so hard to be the girl in a country song, so we're speaking up.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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Even if the production doesn't feel African, the vocal delivery - singing through your nose. Specifically, Highlife music from Nigeria. That was the first music I ever heard as a child. So singing through my nose is something I do often, and that's directly rooted in my heritage.
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The opening of 'There Will Be Blood' with that score and then deafening silence was memorable.
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Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma.
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When desire dies, fear is born.
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ISIL is inspiring groups that already exist to rebrand themselves, but in rebranding themselves into a more radical ideology. That's what makes it dangerous.
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Every time I look through the lens with Denzel, I'm like a 12-year-old kid. It's hard for me to look at the monitor because the fun is in watching him.
