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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People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
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Thats the way I work: I try to imagine what I would like to see.
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It's so important for people to pay attention to history and learn from it, because it's the only thing we've got that's going to help us figure out where we are going. Especially the way things are manipulated in the press today. You have to sort through so much stuff to figure out what is real and what is not. It gets harder every day.
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Tinashe doing 'I Wanna Get Better' - it's a really personal song, and it was hard for me to imagine anyone else doing it, but stylistically her and I are so incredibly different that I was fascinated to hear what she'd do with it, and I completely loved it. It just felt like the different expression of a song that, to me, was so stamped in one way.
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It's generally more fun playing the villain.
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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.
