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I took a deep, deep breath and held it in my core; kept it close behind my protruding, fleshless ribs. I swallowed it whole. I was home.


Ava Bloomfield

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AVA DELLAIRA I mean, words can't be good enough for a lot of things. But, you know, I guess we have to try.
AVA DELLAIRA she walked like she belonged in a better world,
AVA DELLAIRA Nirvana means freedom. Freedom from suffering. I guess some people would say that death is just that...
AVA DELLAIRA I wish you could tell me where you are now. I mean, I know you’re dead, but I think there must be ...
AVA DELLAIRA Sometimes when we say things, we hear silence. Or only echoes. Like screaming from inside. And that�...
AVA DELLAIRA Truth is beautiful, no matter what the truth is. Even if it's scary or bad. It is beauty simply beca...
AVA DELLAIRA There are a lot of human experiences that challenge the limits of our language,” she said. “That...
AVA DELLAIRA There's more to life than being a passenger.
AVA DELLAIRA But we aren't transparent. If we want someone to know us, we have to tell them stuff.
AVA DELLAIRA I know I wrote letters to people with no address on this earth, I know that you are dead. But I hear...
AVA DELLAIRA When we are in love, we are both completely in danger and completely saved.
AVA DELLAIRA You can be noble and brave and beautiful and still find yourself falling.
AVA DELLAIRA I want more girls to be able to see themselves behind the camera creating images we all enjoy, and I...
AVA DUVERNAY If your dream is only about you, it's too small.
AVA DUVERNAY There's something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black wom...
AVA DUVERNAY 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 What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER 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 Our phone bills were astronomical, and when I found the letters Frank wrote me the other day, the to...
AVA GARDNER