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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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 a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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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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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 have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
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There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'
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What tries to break us is endlessly fascinating to me. Joy is a whole different game to express.
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Even if there is peace with all the Arab states, I don't know if the terrorism against us will pass from this 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.
