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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I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.
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I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
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I had no style when I was 17! I look at teenagers now and say, 'I wish I'd looked like them when I was that age.' I had no style whatsoever, but style also wasn't as prominent as it is today. I was just very laid back, usually wearing jeans and tank tops and flip flops.
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The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
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I really don't think that Detroit was any different than New York of Boston or Philadelphia. Kids always wanted to listen to music outside because that's where they hung out with their friends.
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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.
