Antoine Fuqua Quotes
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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think.
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One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.
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So black people all across this country are uniting. They must unite, and they must organize themselves.
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My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Acting gives me an adrenalin rush I don't get from anything else.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.
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I'm so absolutely pro-Denver. I wrote a fake hip-hop song about Denver. I've been claiming Denver. Part of the joke of the song is nobody was really claiming Denver - no rappers, no comedians.
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See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary.
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An aristocrat in morals as in mind.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers - obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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Back then, I could be as obnoxious as I liked and people would still come back for more, they had to, I was Benjamin Cohen, the Dot Com sensation.
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I don't think ignorance is a way that you gain distance on something.
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I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education.
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Faro is a game of chance, essentially, with no skill involved. You bet against the bank, and the bank almost always wins.
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I like making movies.
