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Ava DuVernay Quotes

I'm a prison abolitionist because the prison system as it is set up is just not working. It's horrible.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Prison Up System Horrible Working

In about an 18-month period, my mother got sick and died, and then I had a freak illness less than a year later and almost died myself. And I found in both of those situations that there was this expectation to have a kind of transformative experience.

Mother Myself Experience Sick Year

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

John Sergeant Wise

Slavery Philadelphia Now Days Even

It doesn't even matter if I don't win a self-gold - after every meet, I have pizza. Pepperoni pizza.

Pizza Win Meet Matter Even Every

Le Mans is such a great race because you can never do anything alone. You have to work as a team member. And being a team member makes you a better person.

Work Alone Great Team Better Person

I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.

Never Kinds Different Drafted Had

When I entered TV, I realised that it's not just all about art, but it has a business dimension as well. You need to take care of yourself. I also learned who my viewers are.

Business Art Yourself Care Take Care

One of the great advantages of cremation - apart from all sanitary conditions - lies in the swift restoration to Mother Nature of the material elements composing the physical and astral corpses, brought about by the burning.

Nature Mother Great Mother Nature

In California, there are huge problems because of dams. I'm against big dams, per se, because I think that they are economically unfeasible. They're ecologically unsustainable. And they're hugely undemocratic.

Problems Think California Big Dams

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Love Hate Politicians Interest Them

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.

Susanna Kearsley

Day Opinion Thinking Learn Someone

Before 9/11, al-Qaeda was an organization of global reach.

Organization Reach Global Before

I can play anywhere. First, third, left field, anywhere but Philadelphia.

I Can Play Philadelphia First Left

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