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.

Ava DuVernay

• People
• Thinking
• Black
• Silence
• Wall
• Cutting

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• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• 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.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
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• As far as Israel, I am not worried about the relations between Israel and the United States.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
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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?

  

  Ice Cube
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  • Know

• 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.

  

  Iris Chang
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  • Control
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• So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Actor
  • Singer
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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.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
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• Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Education
  • Party
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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.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Sunday
  • Superstitions
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• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
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  • Islam

• 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.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • School
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• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• 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.

  

  Candice Millard
  • People
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• Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Help
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  • Christmas

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Action
  • Military
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• Equality for women is progress for all.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
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  • Equality

• It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.

  

  Jim Sullivan
  • Music
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• I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand.

  

  Xosha Roquemore
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  • Life
  • Like

• The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.

  

  Rachel Cusk
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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett
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  • History
  • Game

• I cannot absorb living in a world where I have an Oscar for best actress and Denzel doesn't have one for best actor.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • World
  • Actors
  • Actresses

• 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.

  

  Ava DuVernay
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Black