Antoine Fuqua Quotes
It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
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Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.
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I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.
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The weight and concentration of the poems fall upon things (and those great things, animals and people), in their tough, laconic, un-get-pastable plainness: they have kept the stolid and dangerous inertia of the objects of the sagas-the sword that snaps, the man looking at his lopped-off leg and saying, 'That was a good stroke.'
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I love working with the same people. When I find someone I love and that I like working with, I don't want to stop working with them.
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My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.
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I always felt a bit of a nerd, but my family gets me and my oddities. My kids and partner are way cooler than I am, but they let me in the room with them.
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It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
