Ava DuVernay Quotes

I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • World
  • Job
  • Perfect

• I bought a girl roses once.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Girl
  • Once
  • Roses

• My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Fear

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Step

• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Night
  • Care

• I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Bridge

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Energy
  • Solar

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• The true test of a man's style is the haircut. There are some men who look good no matter how their hair is styled, whether it's trendy or not. A man can change his haircut many times, but to pull off any haircut, you have to be very chic. Like Brad Pitt.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • True

• I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Diet
  • Automatically
  • Carbs

• 'Molly's Game' was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women's moguls.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Women
  • She
  • America

• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Road

• When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Done

• We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

  

  Warren Stephens
  • Country
  • Think
  • Investment

• I'm not like a gorgeous bombshell or anything like that.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Anything
  • Gorgeous

• The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Perfect
  • Universe
  • Ambition

• Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Business
  • Day
  • Sometimes

• The public should begin to understand that there's nothing that comes out of this campaign, or this Obama White House, that they can believe. It truly is all misrepresentation and deception.

  

  John Sununu
  • Believe
  • House
  • Deception

• Day to day, I love eating soup and salad; lots of stews, fish, chicken, meat and veg. I eat everything, and I don't have any fads.

  

  Jerry Hall

• I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Game
  • Single
  • Professional

• Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Great
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• Nature must not win the game, but she cannot lose. And whenever the conscious mind clings to hard and fast concepts and gets caught in its own rules and regulations - as is unavoidable and of the essence of civilized consciousness - nature pops up with her inescapable demands.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Mind
  • She

• I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • Great
  • Women