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Ava DuVernay Quotes

I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Women Child College Black Desire

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

Life Homework Moments Admit Painful

I really believe in albums, even though some people believe the year of the album has passed. I love singular pop songs or tracks, but what really affects me most deeply is if there's an hour of music or 45 minutes of music that flows really well and tells a story.

Love Music People Me Believe Story

I wouldn't in any way say I distanced myself from Wall Street.

Myself Wall Say Street Way Any

Wrestlers are the best.

Songs like 'Learn To Love Again' and 'Rochester' and some of the more gut-wrenching ones deal with the pain of the younger times of your life... trying to make sense of some the stuff we probably all went through.

Life Love Pain Learn Trying More

The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

Time Experience Test First Time

I have a retro feel to my work, to my person, but I also have a futuristic view of what's possible. We can have people in pop that have more diverse looks and attitudes.

Work People Feel View Looks Person

People assume that science is a very cold sort of profession, whereas writing novels is a warm and fuzzy intuitive thing. But in fact, they are not at all different.

Science People Writing Cold Warm

Energy begets energy. If you are lazy, you will always be lazy. And if you retire at 60, you will die at 65.

Energy Die You Lazy Will Retire

Right around 2004 when 'Ray' came out, I made a conscious decision to be more discerning because I thought to myself, 'After something like this, I really have to try to be strong enough to turn stuff down.'

Bokeem Woodbine

Myself Decision Be Strong Thought

My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.

Imagination Memory Think Sometimes

I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.

Richard K. Morgan

Experience World Think Early Know

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