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Ava DuVernay Quotes

My mother is from Compton, California, but my father is from Hayneville, Alabama, and that's less than 20 miles from Selma.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Father Mother California Alabama

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

Family You Band Everyone Within

What royal families are very good at doing is surviving and reinventing themselves. That's true whether it's a constitutional monarchy in Britain or an authoritarian monarchy.

Good Doing True Royal Authoritarian

I feel like I'm just learning how to play the guitar. I mean, really learning to play the guitar.

Learning Guitar Feel Play Mean Just

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.

Steven Van Zandt

Change People Play Why Become Got

During the first season of 'Human Giant,' I remember the people at MTV were all over us. They hadn't really done a live-action short-film comedy show, so they didn't know what it was going to be, and they were worried. But after that, they let us do whatever we wanted.

People Comedy Remember Know Done

There is no Dubai and Abu Dhabi; we are one. Whoever doesn't understand this should do their homework before they start talking. We will be there for each other when we need it.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

Start Homework Talking Dubai Will

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

Healing You Intimacy Out Anything

I had to travel into the future and direct 'Jurassic World' as myself in 20 years - and I did.

Colin Trevorrow

Future Myself Travel World Years

If it's funny, I'll do anything.

Cloris Leachman

My father is from North Carolina, and he got rid of his drawl really fast. He's very much about speaking correctly, enunciating in certain ways.

Father Fast North Carolina Got He

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Great Time I Am Doing Out Reinvent

I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.

Change Age Change The World I Am Am

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