Antoine Fuqua Quotes
You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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Everyone posts everything in real time as it happens.
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A poor relation-is the most irrelevant thing in nature.
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It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.
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You don't just have to see superhero movies. Ultimately, those movies are westerns - superheroes are good guys fighting bad guys in a landscape. In westerns, that divide couldn't be any more clear, but the only superpower you have is that you're a quicker shot than the other guy.
