Antoine Fuqua Quotes
My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
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If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.
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Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them.
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Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.
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I hope that when people see Asian women, they realize we are all different. A lot of time with Caucasian people, they just group us together as Asian. But even with different cities in China, people have different personalities... We look Asian, but we still look different. We don't look the same.
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Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
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My responsibility is, I'm always trying to look for new people of color or even artistic people who need a chance.
