Ava DuVernay Quotes

Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is a reflection of oneself as opposed to interpretation. When I see a film or a TV show about black people not written by someone who's black, it's an interpretation of that life.

Ava DuVernay

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I'm a regular person. I know a lot of people love being famous. I don't like it. I'm just chillin'. YouknowwhatI'msayin'?

Wale
- Know
- Like
- Person
If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.

Fabrizio Moreira
- Party
- Choose
- Election
'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.

Patina Miller
- School
- Hair
- Couple
I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.

Ted Bell
- Writing
- Book
- Day
If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

Walter Dean Myers
- World
- Good
- America