Ava DuVernay Quotes

I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

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• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  

  Sam Peckinpah
  • Why
  • You
  • Interview

• Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Work
  • Country

• I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Death
  • Someone
  • Anybody

• The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Different
  • Live

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Few
  • Ear

• From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Choices
  • Hero
  • Creative

• When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Balance
  • Look
  • Economic

• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • People
  • Country
  • House

• I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

  

  Yuna
  • Cool
  • Singing
  • Old

• Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • For Him
  • Succeed
  • Love Is

• The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Reality

• I've always loved to perform in front of people, but it became pretty serious when I participated in 'Sweden's Got Talent.' I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I was just like, 'OK, why not?' And Mom was like, 'OK, sure, sure, do this!' So I did, and I won it!

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Why
  • Fun

• What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fun
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • America
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Sick

• A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Always
  • Italy

• Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Money
  • Remember
  • Fool

• Where is my dwelling place? Where I can never stand. Where is my final goal, toward which I should ascend? It is beyond all place. What should my quest then be? I must, transcending God, into the desert flee

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • God
  • Desert

• If you have been divorced once - male or female, but especially for females - and you're over 40 you're actually a commodity. It means you were able to commit once, and you'll do it again.

  

  Patti Stanger

• Well as I said in France I didn't get auditions, and it's very difficult to get an agent in France because they conduct the business in a strange way.

  

  Berenice Marlohe
  • Business

• Hope was based on the unknown, and I liked knowing things. Like that I was going to fail. Failure had better odds.

  

  Nami Mun
  • Hope
  • Failure
  • Knowing

• You don't characterize CEOs as dealmakers or in any one particular area. An important characteristic of a CEO is leader. That's probably the most important characteristic.

  

  Michael Ramsey
  • Important
  • Particular
  • Characteristics

• I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films.

  

  Ava DuVernay