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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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 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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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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I told you when I came I was a stranger.
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Younger people are discovering my work, even though my reggae is not like theirs.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim.
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Be honest about who you are and what your bringing to the table and what your expectations are.
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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.
