Antoine Fuqua Quotes
So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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If you get behind in first grade, then you're behind every grade from then on.
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In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living.
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In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a 'siege situation' imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.
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So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.
