Ava DuVernay Quotes
Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.
Ava DuVernay
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I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!
Cameron Russell
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The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.
Rachel Keller
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I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!
Iggy Azalea
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I feel like, growing up, I watched football, obviously, and you see great players, and as a fan, you want to watch the best you can possibly watch, and you want to see what's capable of being made.
J. J. Watt
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
Jack Prelutsky
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On a movie set, there's so much down time, adjusting the lighting. It gave me time to nap, call my friends, relax, work out. But with TV, there's no break time. None.
D. B. Sweeney
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
Ed Balls
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
Mads Mikkelsen
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I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
Hansika Motwani
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Instead of playing heroes and righteous people, I'd rather portray characters with problems of conscience who have to lie, to betray, and then have to cope with that. They feel more true to me.
Vincent Cassel
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I don't think that 60-70 percent of working-class white voters would have supported a Muslim ban before Donald Trump said something about a Muslim ban.
J. D. Vance
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When I was really young, my babysitters had horses, and I started riding them.
Sam Hunt
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
D'Arcy Carden
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I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.
Taylor Caldwell
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At Spotify, we really want you to democratically win as a musician. We want you to win because your music is the best music.
Daniel Ek
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Some cultural phenomena bear a striking resemblance to the cells of cell biology, actively preserving themselves in their social environments, finding the nutrients they need and fending off the causes of their dissolution.
Daniel Dennett
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Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
Rachel Sklar
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A lot of the time I'm in the present, and I'm thinking about the past or scheming about the future and missing every present moment, instead of actually partaking of the sacrament of every present moment.
R. D. Laing
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History is important but... I just wanna sing Beyonce songs all day long in front of a mirror.
Zara Larsson
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Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch.
Jason Statham
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.
Thomas Carlyle
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I was a kid from Oklahoma who never wanted to be a singer, but was told I could sing. And things snowballed.
Clara Ann Fowler
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Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.
Ava DuVernay
