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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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
Hailey Gates -
I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
Naomie Harris -
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
Barry Schwartz -
I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
Kajal Aggarwal -
Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
Ma Huateng -
The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
G. Edward Griffin
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
Quavo Migos -
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
Nas -
You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
A. R. Ammons -
Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
Dani Shapiro -
I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
Ilie Nastase -
I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
Kangana Ranaut
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
W. Somerset Maugham -
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 -
Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
Eduardo Chillida -
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 -
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead -
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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I once took the key off my girlfriend's key ring so that I could surprise her when she got home. So I did this whole romantic setup in our bedroom with flowers and rose petals. She was so mad when she got home, but then when she walked in, she was so surprised.
Trey Songz -
Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
Warren Farrell -
People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
Patrick Dempsey -
We have some Jewish members of Congress, not a lot but there's a bunch of us.
Gary Ackerman -
I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
Ma Jian -
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