Ava DuVernay Quotes
I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I love to play chess. The last time I was playing, I started to really see the board. I don't mean just seeing a few moves ahead - something else. My game started getting better. It's the patterns. The patterns are universal.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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India has lot of talent. What I am happy with is that the talent keeps on coming. Certainly it could be nice, though I am not terribly keen on seeing my successor yet.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I just throw on foundation and under-eye concealer, then dust bronzer on my cheeks so they look defined.
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I put my life in danger every time I do some of these demonstrations, whether it's in the audience hanging upside down or on the stage. We now have a lot of dangerous stunts where anything can go wrong. In fact, I have fallen two stories and landed on the stage, so I am well aware of the dangers.
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When you see in this country and every other part of the world the huge pay disparity - in Hollywood, in every profession in the U.K., globally - and you see what is happening to women in every country socially and culturally, you can't not be a feminist.
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I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.
