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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.
Elsa Schiaparelli -
Can Ken Starr ignore the apparent breadth of the sympathetic response to the President's speech? Facially, it finally dawned on me that the person Ken Starr has reminded me of facially all this time was Heinrich Himmler, including the glasses. If he now pursues the President of the United States, who, however flawed his apology was, came out and invoked God, family, his daughter, a political conspiracy and everything but the kitchen sink, would not there be some sort of comparison to a persecutor as opposed to a prosecutor for Mr. Starr?
Keith Olbermann -
I have an amazing relationship with food.
Katharine McPhee -
I was offered seven deals from seven different major labels between 2009-2011, and to be quite honest... nowadays, you need a hit record, a great radio team, an amazing PR firm, social media, a big budget, a team that is ready to work extremely hard, and the drive and passion to win!
Ashanti -
What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows wonderful fruits, vegetables, seafood, game, and fowl just outside of Manhattan.
Daniel Humm -
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