Ava DuVernay Quotes
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.Ava DuVernay
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
Felix Dennis -
I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
Rachael Taylor -
The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
Imtiaz Ali -
I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.
Tamsin Greig
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
Fatima Siad -
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
T-Pain -
Fifteen- to 30-year-olds are interested in all kinds of intelligent movies - it doesn't have to be a broad comedy or an action adventure for them to go see it.
Patrick Whitesell -
I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
Hansika Motwani -
My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Kate McKinnon
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
Rachel Nichols -
I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
Laura Spencer -
I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
Felicity Jones -
I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
Adam Hochschild -
A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
Nate Silver -
However, we still have the problem of free travel and movement, since the Travel Documents issued by UNMIK as the substitute to passports, are not fully recognized yet by all countries.
Ibrahim Rugova
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My focus is mainly on education. I believe education made all the difference for me, and it is certainly going to make all the difference for other children, too.
Ram Shriram -
I do all my speeches in pictures. If I wrote words, I'd get locked in on them.
Jeff Kinney -
My teammates have put me in all different kinds of positions to score goals, and I can't say it enough, and I really through and through believe it in my heart that I'm only as good as my teammates allow me to be.
Abby Wambach -
I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
Barry Humphries -
Growing up, the image I had of Princess Margaret was completely different. I knew that she was a slightly tragic figure, but I didn't know why. Now, I love her with my all my heart. She was such an amazing person, and getting to 'know' her better was an honor.
Vanessa Kirby -
I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away all the narratives, they'd just be amazing documentarians.
Ava DuVernay