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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The March of Dimes
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I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'
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I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.
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We academics - I am an academic - we love complexity. You can write papers about complexity, and the nice thing about complexity is it's fundamentally intractable in many ways, so you're not responsible for outcomes.
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Some people don't even know my name, but they know I am the man with the red soles.
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I grew up watching 'Rocky.' I still love that movie, the original one.
