Ava DuVernay Quotes
You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them.Ava DuVernay
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
Gary Coleman -
When I took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
Kapil Sibal -
With 'Dance Moms' in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we're not filming, so I'm dancing every day except Sunday.
Maddie Ziegler -
It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset Maugham -
I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
Val Kilmer -
Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
Beatrice Wood
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It's understandable why TV hasn't been diverse because a lot of TV writers are white dudes from Harvard. And white dudes from Harvard aren't going to immediately want to write about trans issues. They're not immediately going to want to write about a Filipino family.
Rachel Bloom -
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor -
No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
Dana Boente -
I crave attention and adventure.
Eddie Cibrian -
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady Gaga
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I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
Yani Tseng -
I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
M. K. Hobson -
Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
Kate Forsyth -
I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
Tatum O'Neal -
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
Mandy Moore -
That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
Warren Moon
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We work more than we do anything else in our lives, but the average person only interacts with four to five colleagues. Outside of that, they don't build that many relationships.
Caroline Ghosn -
I never say a funny thing intentionally.
Jayne Meadows -
Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.
Priyanka Chopra -
Everyone wears what they feel great in or comfortable with.
Christian Louboutin -
I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.
David Livingstone -
You see women struggling to keep it all together while a loved one is in jail. But we don't hear about them or their struggles in a way that resonates with others. Their stories are so compelling. It's as if they are in their own little world and no one else sees them.
Ava DuVernay