Ava DuVernay Quotes
There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.
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I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to the start line and thought, 'What if I can't do this?' But the minute I sit on the bike, I am like a different person.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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America has historically met the challenges to its national security with decisive actions that defeated or, at a minimum, contained the threat.
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I've been looking for a woman to save my lifeNot to beg or to borrowA woman with the feeling of losing once or twice.
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As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.
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Its easy to have kids, people try to scare you into thinking "oh its hard to have kids" Its not. I have two, and I have no idea where they are right now. Kids are adorable, someone will always take care of them.
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Because the mask is your face, the face is a mask, so I'm thinking of the face as a mask because of the way I see faces is coming from an African vision of the mask which is the thing that we carry around with us, it is our presentation, it's our front, it's our face.
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There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant culture. I've found a space where the terrain is different, where I'm embraced by people like me, and where I'm building new ways of doing things, as opposed to trying to insert myself in a place that might not be welcoming.
