"Film school was a privilege I could not afford."

-- Ava DuVernay

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“My face responds without authorization from my brain, so the resulting smile feels like the biggest, most unguarded, goofiest smile Iâ€™ve ever unleashed in my entire life. I didnâ€™t even know my face could do this. Itâ€™s like there were hidden zippers in my cheeks. Jesus. This must be what feelings are. This is why people write poems! I get it now. I get it, and I want more.”
“All that remains is for a few dots and commas to be crossed.”
“I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.”

Source : "Lambchop". Interview With Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2008.
“I can do anything I want. Be with anyone I want. And it'll be my choice.”
“I love you in a place where there's no space or time I love you for my life 'cause you're a friend of mine”

Source : Song: A Song For You
“In the social equation, the value of a single life is nil; in the cosmic equation, it is infinite... Not only communism, but any political movement which implicitly relies on purely utilitarian ethics, must become a victim to the same fatal error. It is a fallacy as naÃ¯ve as a mathematical teaser, and yet its consequences lead straight to Goya's Disasters, to the reign of the guillotine, the torture chambers of the Inquisition, or the cellars of the Lubianka.”
“Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead.... What I believe is, if (Belcher) didnâ€™t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.”

Source : "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.
“You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one .”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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