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Ava DuVernay Quotes

When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: August 24, 1972

Topics

Work Great Job Someone Strategy

I've never isolated role models based on gender. I have more male role models due to the mere fact that I've done business with more of them and they're leaders within the verticals I work. Of those, Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, is an entrepreneur and personal friend that I have a great deal of respect for.

Work Friend Business Respect Great

Cats and their owners are on a private, exclusive loop of affection. Thus cats have become symbolic of a community eschewed and a hyper-engagement with oneself. They represent the profound danger of growing so independent in New York that it's not merely that you don't need anyone - it's that you don't know how to need anyone.

Community Cats New York You Know

There was never in my mind a desire to give in on the subject of freeing the political prisoners.

Robert Bourassa

Mind Political Desire Never Give

Quantum entanglement is a very intriguing issue, but it is not impossible.

Impossible Quantum Very Issue

I usually get up between 5:30 and 6. The good news in Bentonville, Arkansas, is I can be in the office seven minutes later. I like to get in, work on e-mails and catch up.

Work Good I Can Good News News Up

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

Change Place Lifetime Taken Huge

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Good Opportunity Present Die Lost

I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.

Win Go Sometimes Want Will Others

If there is a Heaven, I'm sure Rock Hudson is there because he was such a kind person.

Heaven Person Kind Rock Sure He

When there wasn't a lot of work, I wrote a screenplay, 'What Lies Beneath,' which got noticed and got me more acting jobs. As I got more jobs, I was able to make my own films. That ethos of making my own work has provided me with a lot of opportunities.

Work Me Opportunities Acting My Own

I certainly don't like a label that suggests I believe that the military is the solution to most of the world's problems.

World Believe Problems Solution Like

I grew up as normally as any other kid. Between that small TV part I did at five and when I turned professional actor at 18, I stayed away from the limelight, so I was just like any typical kid who went to school.

School Small Professional Actor Kid

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