Ava DuVernay Quotes
I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think showing black people thinking onscreen is radical.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
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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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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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I have no superstitions. I don't have to have a Sunday outfit. I don't have socks or underwear I have to wear.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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With the Lincoln assassination, the South didn't feel it could mourn along with the North. But Garfield was beloved by all the American people. He was trusted and respected by North and South, by freed slaves and former slave owners. Also by pioneers, which his parents had been, and by immigrants.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those.
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I knew when I was diagnosed with cancer the only thing I could control was what I ate, what I drank and what I would think.
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Winning is a habit.
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Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.
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I come from the theater, where the response to your work is immediate, and I suppose there's a part of me that still craves that.
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I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think showing black people thinking onscreen is radical.
