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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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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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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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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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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In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes place, where you're in a world long enough, you can't really help but start to see things in a nuanced, more humanistic way. Just because you're with people and you start to, in general, slightly like the people you're with.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The miniskirt caused an extraordinarily powerful reaction. There were the people who hated it.
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I also have this incredible love for women.
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I count Maxwell and Einstein, Eddington and Dirac, among "real" mathematicians. The great modern achievements of applied mathematics have been in relativity and quantum mechanics, and these subjects are at present at any rate, almost as "useless" as the theory of numbers.
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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?
