Antoine Fuqua Quotes
Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.
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I am not honest.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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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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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side.
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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
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It's tough hearing your voice on the radio, on a chorus, and knowing that people think it's another artist.
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If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.
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One of the main dilemmas that's pretty common to a lot of people who are getting older is the idea that maybe there's a finish line and that maybe there's a time in your life when you start to slow down and stop and smell the roses and just kind of settle into what will be a comfortable period in your life.
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Remakes have been done forever. People talk about 'Scarface' and don't even know it was a remake.
