Ory Okolloh Quotes

I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.

Ory Okolloh

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What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you - what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind - you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn't a strategy.

Jeff Bezos

FutureWindWorldStrategyYouNow

I am so picky about what films I get myself into because it's such an explosion of energy and commitment once you get in there, you destroy your life until you deliver these films. I never want to be in the position of making films that won't be a great use of 90 minutes of someone's life.

Lucy Walker

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What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

Julia Cameron

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I am very sensitive about characters being annoying in movies.

Josh Trank

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I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

Douglas Rushkoff

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I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Constance Baker Motley

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I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human. 'Cause I don't think that people generally are that black and white. Maybe in movie-land they can be... but that isn't necessarily all there is.

Brendan Gleeson

GoodBlack And WhitePeopleThink

My body is quite tiny, but a lot of the emotions I feel are pretty explosive. They have to come out.

Aurora

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I like staying here very much, as I feel at home in Dortmund.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

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The president overstepped his authority when he asked the NSA to eavesdrop on Americans' international phone calls without obtaining a warrant.

Sherrod Brown

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I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people.

Thundercat

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Hope is a very thin diet.

Thomas Shadwell

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