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Ava DuVernay Quotes

Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Job Picture Done Realize Need See

I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.

Love Doctor Silly Play Done Rock

Depression is like pushing a car up a hill. It takes all my energy to push the car up the hill. I don't have any energy left to write.

Car Depression Energy Push Hill Up

There's no way I could ring up a company that was lending me a red-carpet dress and say, 'Do you have it in a 10?' Because all the press samples are an 8 - I would say a 'small 8.'

Dress Me Small You Say Way

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator's plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Russell M. Nelson

Family Truth Children World Destiny

When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.

Time Tools You Person Everyone Most

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

Yellow City Road End Brick London

I'm not gonna ruin my reputation with the blacks no more.

Lisa Lampanelli

Reputation More Ruin Blacks Gonna

The way I try to live is 'Be here now.' Be your best self now.

Christy Turlington

Live Best Self Now Way Try

I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'

Alice McDermott

Work Day Job Treat Think Work Ethic

I've been asked to endorse lots of different pieces of equipment. It's not necessarily that it's an awful thing to be asked to endorse something, because it's inherently a compliment to your skills, your abilities, on a level. But sometimes it's just not the right fit.

Skills Sometimes Compliment Right

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

Change Home Travel Fool Think Magic

Telephone operators have called me 'sir' since I was 6.

Suzanne Pleshette

Me Telephone Sir Since

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