I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.


Ava Gardner

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AVA.
remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.

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AVA.
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and i was full.
AVA.
i just want to be honest about my feelings without destroying everything.
AVA.
i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA
i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA
i am changing
and i am loving change.
AVA.
no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.

love yourself first, AVA.
i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA.
love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA.
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i've never been able to separat...
AVA.
and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
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AVA.
i'm so hooked
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on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA
you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
human being...
AVA.
do not let anyone in
until they love you so fiercely,
you have no defense against their lo...
AVA.
i am soft again.
there is water and it surrounds me.
there is feeling and i can feel it. AVA
you have outgrown this skin.
stop trying to hold it in.
stop trying to hold it together. AVA.
you wanted it all to make sense
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but the answer...
AVA.
i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA.
hold company with yourself so sacred
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AVA.
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AVA.
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AVA.
you came in slowly like the fog
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AVA.
i want so much to touch you
where my hands cannot.
AVA.
we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA.
you giver of light.
you lover of love.

you beautiful
beautiful
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the...
AVA.
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we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA
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i'm not gentle enough.

i always end up
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AVA.
the opening,
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the falling apart
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the hurti...
AVA.
i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.
AVA
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the...
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i took it off.
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AVA
i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA.
i feel everything.
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and to not feel
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It's not enough even to have one black Barbie... because black women are not a monolith.
AVA DUVERNAY
I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in l...
AVA DUVERNAY
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, d...
AVA DUVERNAY
If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. Yo...
AVA DUVERNAY
All of a sudden we were out of the lot and on the highway next to the mountains, flying. I put my ha...
AVA DELLAIRA
Dragons have wild hearts that need the open sky
AVA RICHARDSON
I loved the feeling of being alone together in the car, like we could go anywhere we wanted. Just us...
AVA DELLAIRA
The time is not always now for everything.
AVA RICHARDSON
I believe that the brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of c...
HOWARD GARDNER
If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you wor...
GAYLE GARDNER
In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
GAYLE GARDNER
What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it...
GARDNER DOZOIS
When I was a boy in Salem, Mass., in the 1950s, if you wanted to buy a book, you had to take a train...
GARDNER DOZOIS
I've probably read more bad science fiction than anyone else alive. But I've also read more ...
GARDNER DOZOIS
When I first started editing a 'Year's Best' volume in the '70s, the job was pretty ...
GARDNER DOZOIS
Even after all these years, finding a really first-rate story is still a thrill, one I want to share...
GARDNER DOZOIS
Philadelphia's a good science-fiction town. There are many professional writers here, like Micha...
GARDNER DOZOIS
An experienced slush-pile reader doesn't need more than a few seconds to see if a story has pote...
GARDNER DOZOIS
Hemp has the potential to be a major boon to Colorado agriculture, giving farmers another viable and...
CORY GARDNER
We must pursue immigration reform - it's something we have to do, something that starts with bor...
CORY GARDNER
It's a family; lacrosse is not like any other sport, it's more of a way of life.
ADAM GARDNER
I've been to a few of those and they've been really powerful.
ADAM GARDNER
It's great not only talking about community service in theory but actually doing it.
ADAM GARDNER
I never really thought of community service as a movement, but it is.
ADAM GARDNER
Reverb is a nonprofit group my wife and I started a few years ago.
ADAM GARDNER
New Hampshire has always been a good state.
ADAM GARDNER
The fact is, our men and women in uniform, the bravest in the world, did everything they could to pr...
CORY GARDNER
All to often, on the long road up, young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of w...
JOHN GARDNER
Do you know what happens when you give a procrastinator a good idea? Nothing!
DONALD GARDNER
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings.
EDWARD GARDNER
There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't...
ROBERT GARDNER
If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.
EDWARD GARDNER
It's not what you take but what you leave behind that defines greatness.
EDWARD GARDNER