Ava DuVernay Quotes
You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast, and no one goes out. Artists should have a chance to do it again. That's the challenge: Women artists don't get a second chance. People-of-color artists don't get a second chance. You're put in director's jail, and that's a wrap.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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Saudi Arabia is one of India's most valued strategic partners.
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Consumer credit is like giving yourself a blood transfusion from your left arm to your right. Nothing is accomplished, except the possibility of spilling blood on the floor. But it's not even that benign.
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I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.
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Quiet people have the loudest minds.
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You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast, and no one goes out. Artists should have a chance to do it again. That's the challenge: Women artists don't get a second chance. People-of-color artists don't get a second chance. You're put in director's jail, and that's a wrap.
