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Ava DuVernay Quotes

To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's still an incredible feeling to know I won. But as happy as I am about winning, I also know many other women of color have directed amazing films over the years that were equally deserving and didn't win.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Women Myself Best I Am Happy Win

I grew up in a rough environment. You want to be strong and have your presence felt out there. That attitude reflects how people see you.

Attitude Be Strong People Strong You

And also the new excitement and variety of ways that the abstract expressionists were applying paint. You could put it on as though it were colored air and it would be painting.

Robert Rauschenberg

Painting You New Excitement Paint

That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Success Man Loved Lived Well Who

I got into a bad habit of dropping my elbow and pushing the ball to the plate instead of getting on top of it and using some leverage to get it down in the strike zone or get some depth with the ball.

Habit Bad Down Strike Leverage Top

If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

Children Optimism Doing You Give

The more the schemata are differentiated, the smaller the gap between the new and the familiar becomes, so that novelty, instead of constituting an annoyance avoided by the subject, becomes a problem and invites searching.

Problem New More Searching Gap

I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.

Work Art American Artist Buying

Usually, my rhymes are just in my head. I start off with a theme, and once I start rapping and writing and singing, the chorus and all that, it just starts flowing. Then it's done in about an hour! I write a lot of songs.

Writing Singing Start Done Write

Zendaya is really chill and cool.

Cool Chill Really

One of the more urp-making habits of media mavens is presuming to speak for the American people, as in 'The American people won't stand for this!'

People Speak Stand American Media

I have had to come to terms with wearing glasses.

Lucinda Williams

Glasses Come Wearing Had Terms

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

Cold Lonely Top

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