Ava DuVernay Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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As far being the face of boxing, I don't like to name myself that. I leave that up to the media and the fans.
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Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.
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It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.
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Anything with 'Family Guy' is great.
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The success of the long-established relationship between the liberal/socialist/progressives and the Black Talented Tenth has been due to their commonality in commitment to an ideology and self-aggrandizement above all else.
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The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
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I was a publicist for other people's movies.
