Antoine Fuqua Quotes
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I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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To me, family is what is important. If you don't have it, nothing is going to matter.
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In Delhi, where I grew up, commerce is brusque. You don't ask each other how your day has been. You might not even smile. I'm not saying this is ideal - it's how it is. You're tied together by a transaction. The customer doesn't tremble before complaining about how cold his food is.
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Our philosophy is, using internet technology, we can make every company become Amazon.
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I'm not one of these people that needs to feel loved. I don't need to see my picture everywhere.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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I never want to play the same character twice. I like to do different roles. I have fun with that.
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If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
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The world is a fine place. The only thing wrong with it is us. How little justice and humility there is in us, how poorly we understand patriotism!
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You have to do something different, or you are just the guy who goes out there and has a great match, but nobody cares. You have to have different layers to your character.
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When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin. If it were impossible at times not to note their own growth in grace, it were impossible also to forget that it was all by His power. If they could be persuaded to admit their progress and talk of it at all, the language of their heart would be this: 'If God could do this in me, He could do it in anyone
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I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.
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Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.