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Ava DuVernay Quotes

Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-rights movement. It's not my favorite thing to watch. So often they feel like medicine. Or not even a history lesson, because I really like history. Just... obligatory.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History Medicine Feel Lesson Watch

I exercise all the time, every morning, and then I do music in the afternoon. I walk two to three miles a day and do Pilates twice a week.

Music Morning Time Walk Day Week

I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.

Jeremy Grantham

Environmental Challenges Powerful

It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

Artist Hard Up Give Hard Thing

A martyr can never cooperate with death, go to death in a way that they're not trying to escape.

Stanley Hauerwas

Death Trying Go Escape Way Never

I met Joan Allen at an L.A. Film Critics Awards' dinner, and I said, 'I want to write a movie for you.'

Dinner You Said Want Awards Write

Some of my biggest influences are people like Steven Wright and Todd Berry. I'm a shy person, and I don't think people who aspire to do comedy think that's an option.

People Think Comedy Person Shy Like

I'm glad I didn't get to WWE until I did because I was more complete at 32 than I was at 25. It all happens for a reason.

More Reason Because Complete Get

Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.

Work Marriage Equality World Deep

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

Powerful Out Mindfulness Irrelevant

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Writing Reading Rich Lips You Want

I like to live a spoiler-free life.

I would rather hang out in my house with a couple of friends than go and rage all night.

Chord Overstreet

Night Friends House Go Rage Out

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