Antoine Fuqua Quotes
If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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The South Africans decided that they would like to prove to the world they did not have any nuclear weapons and their decision was not doubted because it was the end of the Cold War, it was also the end of apartheid.
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A strong accountability system needs to broaden, not narrow, the curriculum. That cannot happen if you only have accountability without adequate school funding. Until Tallahassee understands the need to raise the bar as well as the financial investment, Florida will continue to celebrate mediocrity at the expense of true achievement.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie and not finish it off, understand it, get some closure. That's why the movie is called 'Quantum of Solace' - that's exactly what he's looking for.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.
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We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have often perceived Islam as a violent and intolerant faith - even though when this prejudice took root Islam had a better record of tolerance than Christianity.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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One of the things that characterizes good intellectual work is a certain self-importance.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Know yourself -- and know your audience.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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When I left the house to become an actress, my mother literally flung her body across the door and said, 'You're killing me!' It was a very strict household. That can be okay, but there was also no nourishment, either.
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If you win, if you make money. If you do quality work, then other people of color, whatever color that is, can get in the door.
