Ava DuVernay Quotes
I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Being the vice-captain, you see a lot of things on the field. You have to try and help the captain as much as you can and lead by example on the field. Small things like getting a run-out or taking a catch makes the other boys try and lift their standards. So yes, I do have an important role, even if I'm not captain.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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In Europe, it appears that in the name of democracy, elites are pursuing an autocratic, centralized power, seeking economic control and social regimentation.
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I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.
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I've been acting since I was 7, and I always knew it was what I wanted to go into.
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Jeff is a good leader, very competitive and focused. His spirit of innovation is a vital part of the present and the future of NBC Universal.
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I would go to radio stations and they were supposed to be interviewing me and playing my record and they would say, We're playing too many women right now, we can't play your record.
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Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world. People respond to a certain down-to-earthness that I have, and that's purely as a result of coming from Birmingham.
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I think that black people making art, women making art, and certainly black women making art is a disruptive endeavor - and it's one that I enjoy extremely.
