Ava DuVernay Quotes
If, in 2014, we're still making 'white savior movies,' then it's just lazy and unfortunate. We've grown up as a country, and cinema should be able to reflect what's true. And what's true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own perspectives.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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I like that we don't have to come out the first 10 minutes and score, you know, with joke, joke, joke. We can open it in a more novel way and keep playing different pranks as we go through the thing.
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If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.
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We must conduct research and then accept the results. If they don't stand up to experimentation, Buddha`s own words must be rejected.
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I like working. I like getting up every morning and going somewhere. Where I do it or what form doesn't matter.
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I would have loved to meet David Bowie.
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If, in 2014, we're still making 'white savior movies,' then it's just lazy and unfortunate. We've grown up as a country, and cinema should be able to reflect what's true. And what's true is that black people are the center of their own lives and should tell their own stories from their own perspectives.
