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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If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.
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I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.
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I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!
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Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your desk. Keep Fitzgerald's 'The Crack Up' on the right. When you get stuck, pick them up and pretend that they are having a fight, like you used to do with your GI Joes.
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Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal.
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Having previously graduated from a 2-year commercial arts class, I thought that commercial illustration was the best way to make a living doing art. But the more tattoos that I did, the more I realized what artistic career potential tattooing had and I enjoyed it.
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Kurosawa is the sensei, the Shakespeare, of filmmaking.
