Ava DuVernay Quotes

When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.

Ava DuVernay

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

John Jay Chapman

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You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.

Matthew Lewis

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I think that people need a livable wage.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Jonah Goldberg

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There is something wonderful about turning up every day and knowing that not just the character but the whole movie kind of rests on your shoulders. And there's great satisfaction when you think it's going well and then real terror when you think it's not.

Domhnall Gleeson

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It is the natural order of things that successive generations will achieve more than their predecessors.

Dominic Holland

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If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.

Donna Summer

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A new idea is like carbonated liquid in a bottle. You just sort of shake it until the cork pops, then you write and write.

Christopher Buckley

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Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

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I read every book there was on jazz, about the original players - King Oliver, Buddy Bolden and all those groups. At one time I was fairly well schooled in that... I could tell you who played where and when, historically, way before my time.

Clint Eastwood

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I had to learn a lot about myself during the situation with my brain tumor.

Tionne Watkins

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People who have fabulous childhoods have this sense that nothing is ever going to be that good again. With me, I have the sense that nothing is going to be that bad.

Nigella Lawson

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