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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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your 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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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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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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My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.
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I think we make the movies, initially, with the one movie in mind. But we do love the characters, and so we kind of miss the characters when the movie is over. But I think what happens is, every now and then you realize there's more to tell, or an idea comes up.
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If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.
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Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.
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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.
