Ava DuVernay Quotes
There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.
Ava DuVernay
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
Ted Yoho
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
Eduardo Chillida
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
Olivia Williams
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It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
Edmund White
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First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode.
Anthony Michael Hall
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
Francesco Totti
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
Landon Donovan
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Oprah Winfrey
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There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It's a reflection as opposed to an interpretation.
Ava DuVernay
