Ava DuVernay Quotes
Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
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After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
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I was an expert horseman.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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People shouldn't have to spend a lot of money to get high-quality clothing.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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I do feel bad when my films don't do well, but I respect audiences' verdict because they know well which films to support. If they don't like a film, we should accept it.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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I certainly think that we can take steps to prevent this kind of weapon that is designed to create mass casualties from getting into the hands of the wrong people while still protecting the Second Amendment rights of the people of New Hampshire and making sure that we're protecting the ownership and use of legitimate hunting rifles.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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I feel like I'm quite versatile. I want to do lots of different styles.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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I love the system. Let me tell you why. People love it... The people, by and large, have great respect for our law and our system... Why do you think they go to that courthouse instead of killing each other in the streets, taking the law into their own hands?
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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Whites have always put one against another and now they have a dead man who was nothin' but a, he admitted it himself, Malcolm X, was a tramp or had white women sellin' their body for him, he was nothin' until the Honorable Elijah Mohammed made him great, made him great, taught him, even his name X come from Elijah.
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I feel like people with their camera phones and Twitter and Facebook, this kind of question like, 'How can I be present and also document my presence or document what I'm doing?' is something that's always on my mind, even when I'm not working as a filmmaker.
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I just think Trump's character and some of his values makes him unfit to lead. For someone like him to be president and in charge of our troops? It's scary, to be honest.
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Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
