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.
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I believed I was invincible.
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I've always wanted to play quarterback, and I lucked out to be able to play for my favorite team - America's team. I'm just living the moment. I feel like all of this was supposed to happen. When you work hard, things work your way.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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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.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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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.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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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.
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Whenever you can bring your chops in as a reporter to unearth a cool story, that's always a good thing.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.
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History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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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.
