Antoine Fuqua Quotes
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Imperfection is perfection.
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To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
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I always played to win.
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I want 'The Lady' magazine to be restored to its traditional place in the pantheon of weekly magazines.
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Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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I hate the domestic life.
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Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit - it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.
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He picked up the lemons that Fate had sent him and started a lemonade-stand.
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There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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He seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent, and so airy.
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I grew up watching 'Rocky.' I still love that movie, the original one.