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 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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It is hard work to give life to new characters every single day. It is not as if I am God. I am just a tired, middle-aged woman trying to keep going.
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Be a member of the human race. Love somebody. Change the world.
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While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.
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Your photography is a record of your living - for anyone who really sees. You may see and be affected by other people's ways, you may even use them to find your own, but you will have eventually to free yourself of them. That is what Nietzche meant when he said, 'I have just read Schopenhauer, now I have to get rid of him.' He knew how insidious other people's ways could be, particularly those which have the forcefulness of profound experience, if you let them get between you and your own personal vision.
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When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.
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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.
