Ava DuVernay Quotes
There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.Ava DuVernay
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I believed I was invincible.
Lance Loud -
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Uma Thurman -
I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.
Gail Porter -
I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
Dan Fogler -
It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
Kate Christensen -
There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
Parker Posey
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Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
Nathan Deal -
We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
Ted Cruz -
Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Paracelsus -
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
Harmony Korine -
Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
A. Bartlett Giamatti -
Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
J. Michael Straczynski -
Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
Carine Roitfeld -
We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
H. G. Wells -
You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
Isaac Hanson Hanson
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The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.
Jack Kevorkian -
For right now, I still believe that college is what's going to make me the happiest girl.
Missy Franklin -
I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.
Mae Jemison -
When I say a girl like me, I bet you think I'm just talking about being fat. How dare you fat-shame me? You think I'm talking about being black? Racist. What makes you think I'm not talking about being smart? What? You don't think a fat, black girl can be smart or something? Fat-shaming racists like you make me sick.
Gabourey Sidibe -
There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a black woman directing films in Hollywood.
Ava DuVernay