Gina Prince-Bythewood Quotes

'Beyond the Lights' was my fourth film. I gained a lot of knowledge, and I'm excited to share that with young filmmakers because I know how lost I was coming out of film school with that question of 'What's next?'

Gina Prince-Bythewood

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KnowledgeSchoolLightsKnowYoung

I started out doing triathlons because they terrified me! I'm a good swimmer, I learned to ride a bike in college, and I hate running. It seemed like something I could never do, so I decided, 'I'm gonna do it.'

Megyn Price

GoodHateRideBikeCollegeMe

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Mary Catherine Bateson

LifeGoodPlaceGoWillAsk

I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.

Mary Roach

FearFutureGreatInsecurityBook

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

Lisa See

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I don't have a lot of patience for movies that aren't cleanly told.

Jon Favreau

PatienceMoviesLot

I think the Casey Anthony trial caught a lot of news organizations off guard.

Don Lemon

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I still think about the first time I met Lennox Lewis, and he took the time out to talk to me, and he showed me different techniques. I'll never forget. Lennox was one of those guys that set the standard. He's a hard act to follow. But I love a challenge.

Deontay Wilder

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I saw 'Get On Up' about a dozen times. I went every day. Every single day, I was standing outside when the movie theatre opened and bought my ticket. The theatre was usually empty. I live in a town that wasn't eager or very interested in a James Brown biopic, but I couldn't stop watching Boseman.

Christopher Priest

LiveDayTheatreEvery DayStopUp

Martin Scorsese was being given an honorary doctorate, and one of the tutors asked if there was a student film he particularly liked. He mentioned our film. There was a dinner after the final show just for the tutors, but I was smuggled in to meet Scorsese over dessert.

Asif Kapadia

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Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

William Golding

ExperienceLanguageOverLikeFits

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

BrotherMeYouInsideEatPretty

Humanitarian assistance, once conceived as a short-term relief effort, is increasingly the only substitute for long-term development work in protracted armed conflicts.

Peter Maurer

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