Ava DuVernay Quotes
I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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Security for agriculture merits serious concern by not only the agricultural community but our nation as a whole. The risk to the U.S. food supply and overall economy is real.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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It was cool to meet Cris Carter. That dude has some of the best hands to have played the game.
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There are certain things that are too painful for people to even write about sometimes, and there are certain things that are too hard to read about again.
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I didn't play soccer; I played that other football in grade school through college.
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I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.
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Movies were very important. The art-form of the 20th century.
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I had to find some clarity about approaching life more spiritually. I think I'm kind of dense, and it makes me pull the process into mind and struggle over it in finding the path.
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
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I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I want to call attention to the fact that women directors are here all over the world.
