Ava DuVernay Quotes
I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I don't have any horror stories about glass ceilings and expectations and tense studio meetings.
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I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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That's the great thing with the WWE. They want you to be like John Cena, they want you to be like The Rock, and they definitely give you that platform.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Emotionally, shows like 'Cheers' and 'Taxi' were classic sitcoms when I was growing up.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make you mortgage-free in retirement.
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Enterprise is hard work. You have to integrate the client with the optimized systems of all the servers and software.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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I'm very active, wild woman.
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It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting.
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Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe. It hardly matters, though. The termite that asks itself why it keeps chewing risks becoming sluggish and inefficient, as does the writer who grows self-conscious in the middle of chapter five.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.
John Moody -
As a scientist I must be mindful of the past; all too often it has happened that matters of great value to science were overlooked because the new phenomenon did not fit the accepted scientific outlook of the time.
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I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I don't have any horror stories about glass ceilings and expectations and tense studio meetings.
