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Ava DuVernay Quotes

It's emotional for artists who are women and people of color to have less value placed on our worldview.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Women Value People Color Emotional

Just as like the music industry still wishes for the days when it controlled its own production and distribution, the media and marketing world still yearns for the silver bullet of the thirty-second spot on 'Seinfeld,' even as it knows those days are over.

Music World Media Wishes Silver Own

Once you get over the hurdle of how to get something on the screen, it's not that difficult to make apps and share them with your friends.

Friends You Difficult Over Share

From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.

Growth Brain Internet Understanding

Finally, in my early 30s, I started writing fiction for the first time as an adult. That felt so scary, and I spent a few years feeling miserably 'behind' my high-achieving friends. But I persevered and obviously have no regrets.

Time Writing Friends Early Feeling

Creative destruction is gonna be the greatest thing that can happen to Manhattan.

Jason Calacanis

Creative Happen Greatest Manhattan

For me, 'I Am Woman' is all about transition. I turned 21 in December, so I'm not completely grown up yet but I'm not a little girl anymore. Just in that in-between stage. The song is everything I have ever heard a woman say. I loved this song for me and every young lady, girl and woman to be able to feel empowered in being female.

Girl Woman I Am Me Song Loved

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

Jonathan Evison

Old Years Through Who Buddy His

What I do in WWE is essentially a lovable bad guy.

Bad Bad Guy Guy WWE Lovable

Nashville has a formula, and it works a lot of the time, but it wasn't right for me. They're afraid to step outside the box - even though, with me, my success came because I was outside of the box to begin with.

Success Time Step Me Outside Right

I prefer to be scared in a way that a 12-year-old would want to be.

Colin Trevorrow

Want Way Scared Would Prefer

On the street, on the train - I pull my hat down, and nobody knows it's me. I always wanted the kind of fame that came with an off button.

Hat Me Down Train Nobody Street

In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.

People Independence Early Late Over

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