Ava DuVernay Quotes
My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
Ava DuVernay
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Because I'm a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did 'The Blind Side,' where I played a father who's a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.
Omar Dorsey
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Education is the mother of leadership.
Wendell Willkie
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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
Wade Boggs
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My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
Zendaya
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
Ram Kapoor
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You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.
Tamron Hall
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I still feel as if I weren't a good enough mother. I didn't break any rules.
Mary Tyler Moore
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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
Margaret Atwood
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I'm clenched down, I'm locked in on it, which is my general approach to life.
James Ellroy
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I was different. I got beat up every day.
Joe Morton
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I mean, everyone walks into the gym on day one skinny or fat. Arnold Schwarzenegger walked into the gym skinny at 15 or 16, and I was that way, too.
Joe Manganiello
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My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.
Ava DuVernay