Ava DuVernay Quotes

I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

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• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Never

• For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Me
  • Greatest
  • Tell

• What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • School
  • Friends
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Know
  • Play
  • Strange

• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Faithful
  • Sinner
  • Despised

• 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.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Leadership

• 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.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• A Constitution should be short and obscure.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Constitution
  • Short
  • Obscure

• You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Believe
  • Feet
  • Believe In Yourself

• 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.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Up
  • Character
  • Universe

• 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.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Fighting

• 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.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Funny
  • Cool
  • Like

• Even when I turn 60, they'll call me a child actor.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Child
  • Actor
  • Turn

• Russians don't complain, usually.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Complain
  • Russians

• We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • World
  • Human
  • See

• Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Experience
  • Memories
  • More

• Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Criticism
  • Creation
  • Motto

• I think a young woman's relationship with her father is really important.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Important
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I think, for me, one of the biggest things that I struggle with is keeping the excitement up when writing a song. A lot of times, I'll get pretty frustrated early on.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.

  

  John Travolta
  • Art
  • Amazing
  • Artist

• Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

  

  Chaka Khan
  • Trying

• Based on the number that they found, The New York Times reported that Hillary Clinton had basically clinched the primary 'cause you added the superdelegates to the number of delegates you'd already gotten. But this was on the eve of the California and New Jersey primary.

  

  Terry Gross
  • California
  • Found
  • Causes

• I think the way I feel when I look at Evan comes from her. In pictures taken the day she married my dad, she was reckless, laughing, spinning around in circles. She looked like her whole world was him. She looked a kind of happy I can't even imagine. I don't want that. I don't want to be like that. I don' want to feel the way she did because I know what happens when you do. You love with your whole heart, with everything, and you wake up one morning and kiss someone good-bye the way you always do except you mean it as good-bye forever.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Imagine

• I'm a filmmaker to my bones.

  

  Ava DuVernay