Ava DuVernay Quotes

As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.

Ava DuVernay

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YourselfPeopleYouDownWantOkay

A lot of people didn't like John McCain.

Jim Inhofe

PeopleLikeLotJohnJohn McCain

I love to wear dresses when I'm pregnant.

Jessica Capshaw

LoveDressesWearPregnantI Love

Oh, absolutely, it felt more serious than your typical job. One of the things that got us through how difficult the shooting actually was was that we are telling a real story.

John C. Reilly

JobStorySeriousMoreDifficultUs

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

Johann Lamont

PoliticsPeopleColleaguesThinkTwo

In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral line appeared to me to be the result of the coherence and co-operation of several electric quanta.

Johannes Stark

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Every woman has, for her own self-esteem, to work or have a major interest.

Amanda Eliasch

WorkWomanSelf-EsteemOwnHer

An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a brilliant discussion. The first seems sometimes even to undermine the second.

Stacy Schiff

MeBookInterestingSometimesFirst

I'm pretty pleased with my place in the world.

Simon Fowler

WorldPlacePrettyPleased

Each young reader has to fashion an entirely new 'reading circuit' afresh every time. There is no one neat circuit just waiting to unfold. This means that the circuit can become more or less developed depending on the particulars of the learner: e.g., instruction, culture, motivation, educational opportunity.

Maryanne Wolf

OpportunityTimeCultureWaitingNew

I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

Mike Weir

MoneyMeAppearancePlayGoNice

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Miguel de Unamuno

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I'm always learning new things about myself.

Jonathan Van Ness

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