Ava DuVernay Quotes
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.
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I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I continue to play aliens, so there's obviously something there.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke.
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I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath.
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Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.
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Russians don't complain, usually.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.
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Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
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I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.
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I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
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The job is to ask questions - it always was - and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
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Because of a jury-rigged and outdated system meant to track deaths, the government has trouble determining exactly which Americans are deceased.
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The scripture is filled with examples of genuine masculinity; you could mine David's story for probably a year by itself. And we have to get the masculinity of Jesus back. Not the pale-faced altar boy, but the man that made a weapon and cleared the temple, who boldly cast out demons and calmed the raging sea.
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The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning.
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I'm a filmmaker to my bones.
