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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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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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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Messi is a great player. Playing against him is not good - it is bad.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Throughout his presidency, Clinton made a point of getting close - physically and emotionally - to the people whose problems his administration was working to solve.
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I adore falseness. I don't want you to tell me accurately what happened yesterday. I want you to lie about it, to exaggerate, to entertain me.
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Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.
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I was a publicist for other people's movies.
