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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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 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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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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There was a conflict - the actual putting together of the reality of the situation didn't seem to gel. I'd been doing kind of a slow ballad type of thing on records, but when it came to performing, I felt I was limiting myself.
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To see classic rock, you had to go to an arena. But punk was happening everywhere, even in little towns in the middle of nowhere in Maryland. I'd drive out to places I'd never been, just to go and see it.
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It takes all sorts of people to come together to fight tyranny. It's not about one race anymore.
