Ava DuVernay Quotes
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.Ava DuVernay
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
Tecumseh -
Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
Eckhart Tolle -
I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
Edmund White -
Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
Ted Sarandos -
'Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure.
Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters -
A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
Han Fei
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
Karen Duffy -
All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
Maelle Gavet -
That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.
Walter Jon Williams -
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
Halle Berry -
I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
Garrett Dillahunt -
Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
Ja Rule
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I believe America is the most powerful country in the world and is a country that stands on principle. Its principles are enshrined in its very foundation and constitution, and it has a duty to serve humanity. America has a duty to follow its conscience to reject repression. It must reject oppression. It must reject humiliation.
Abdullah of Saudi Arabia -
My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
Uzo Aduba -
In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.
Walter Kaufmann -
It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
Ian Mckellen -
When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.
Val Kilmer -
Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
Victor Garber
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Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.
Pablo Picasso -
Life isn't supposed to be easy. Generally speaking, the harder something is the more rewarding the results will be.
Christie Craig -
When people think of Aerosmith, I want them to think of the music we've made and nothing else. I don't want the responsibility of some young kid trying to live his life like I did back in the '70's.
Steven Tyler Aerosmith -
That's what I think our jobs as parents are, to educate as much as possible... I tell them to follow their bliss. The people who follow their bliss in this world tend to be the more happier people.
Art Alexakis -
I don't know, my music has always just come from where the wind blew me. Like where I'm at during a particular moment in time.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -
I didn't start out thinking that I could ever make films. I started out being a film lover, loving films, and wanting to have a job that put me close to them and close to filmmakers and close to film sets.
Ava DuVernay