Ava DuVernay Quotes
Many hated 'Selma.' Just because my voice and the voice of the people I come from is antithetical to so much of what Hollywood produces. I don't think what I'm saying is in particular radical or anything; it's just different from what they want to sell.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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I'm not a greedy person, I just want to accomplish so many different things.
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There are certain guys you just take from different teams that you watch.
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[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.
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I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
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Many hated 'Selma.' Just because my voice and the voice of the people I come from is antithetical to so much of what Hollywood produces. I don't think what I'm saying is in particular radical or anything; it's just different from what they want to sell.
