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.
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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.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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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.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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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?'
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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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?
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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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.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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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.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.
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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.
