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Ava DuVernay Quotes

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Women Men Bond Think Friends See

It's important to surround yourself with good people, interesting people, young people, young ideas. Go places, learn new stuff. Look at the world with wonder - don't be tired about it.

Good Yourself Surround Yourself Tired

When I looked further into my mother's history, I realised that her anxieties and her neuroses could be accounted for by facts from a very early age. Her parents, William Henry Jones and Sarah Emily, were desperately poor.

John Rhys-Davies

Mother Age History Parents Facts

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Stephen Hawking

Time Prime Her Drop Machine He

I refused to do a lot on mobile Internet until around 2009. But because we didn't start early, it took us some time to figure out what's the important thing, what's the most relevant thing for Baidu.

Time Start Internet Early Important

I'm accustomed to pressure. It's what we, as players, live. If you don't want pressure, then football is not for you.

Roberto Firmino

Live Football Pressure You Want

It gave me a lot of pleasure and pride that 90 percent of the crew for 'Monsoon Wedding,' and most of my film, are women. We get the work done, you know, much lesser play of ego... And I really believe in harmony, I believe in working in a spirit of egolessness and that the film is bigger than all of us.

Work Women Me Ego Believe Pride

Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement.

Depression Soul Disappointment Begins

The thing about 'Aquarius' is it's incredibly original, and it's really different than anything on network television. The story is so compelling, and it's something people are fascinated by.

People Story Television Anything

I don't understand the NBA in that, each time they bring in a one-and-done kid, they have to release a veteran player on a roster. I don't understand why their players association condones that.

Time Why Understand Kid Bring NBA

I was not out to paint beautiful pictures; even painting good pictures was not important to me. I wanted only to help the truth burst forth.

Alice Duer Miller

Good Truth Beautiful Me Painting

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural.

Alicia Silverstone

Thought Want Conservative Get Cult

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.

Girl Book Want Boy Read Necessarily

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