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 daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
Laura Dern -
I love the sun but don't have the time to get a good tan and keep it year-round, so I am a huge fan of tanning products.
Kim Kardashian -
There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
Eberhard Weber -
When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally.
Frank Miller -
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