Ava DuVernay Quotes
I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
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I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Actor's life is very long.
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Allowing adult children who live at home who are in between jobs to stay on their parents' health care, I think that's a lot of Republican support for that, with or without Obamacare.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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Every film is like a baby for me; it's like my own child. I feel protective and aggressive each time my film hit theatres.
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Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a book.'
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I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed.
