Gina Prince-Bythewood Quotes

With 'Love & Basketball,' I played ball my whole life and did track at UCLA. So, I'm an athlete. And it was very important for me to get it right. I started with casting: As an athlete, there's nothing worse for me than watching a sports movie and the woman that they hire can't run or can't shoot. It sets women's sports back years.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Jim Woodring

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Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.

Jim Bolger

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I like working with kid actors because they surprise you constantly. I mean, all actors do - but kids particularly.

Joe Dante

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I believe patriotism comes from the heart. Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief.

Jesse Ventura

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There's so much more to a book than just the reading.

Maurice Sendak

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I might like somebody, and have to go interview somebody that hates them, but I still have to be fair.

Angie Martinez

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My advice to authors would be to try to do something original rather than to try to anticipate what the market is looking for.

Jeff Kinney

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While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war.

John Yoo

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I'd like to think there's still a lot for me to do, you know?

John Saxon

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How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.

Robert Dallek

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I don't get jealous - I get suspicious.

Rita Ora

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If you made all the French fries you ate, you would eat them much less often, if only because they're so much work. The same holds true for fried chicken, chips, cakes, pies, and ice cream. Enjoy these treats as often as you're willing to prepare them - chances are good it won't be every day.

Michael Pollan

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