you came in slowly like the fog
and consumed me.
AVA.
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JAMIE COLTON Sydney: I've waited for him for so long.
Ava: I know. Funny that he only came around once...
BRYNNA GABRIELSON But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quick...
DAVID RICARDO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES That’s my girl.
Live a good life, Ava.
LISA SCHROEDER People, like us
we feel... too deeply
consumed, in shadow
this game of chance.
T...
BEV FLYNN Autumn has come
and reason has gone.
Yesterday, I sold the sun for you
and tonight...
KAMAND KOJOURI ...his sleep, though deep as death itself, was not dreamless this time, but threaded with ghostly wi...
PATRICK SüSKIND Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories...
SUSAN HILL Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by...
DAVE BARRY Slowly, silently, I reach out and slip the glass out of her hand.
"What do you think you're doi...
SIMONE ELKELES Show me slowly what I only
know the limits of
Dance me to the end of love
LEONARD COHEN Do you remember when you came in and got me out of the harvesting room at Dakiti? I hadn't expected ...
E.J. FISCH Call me obsessed, color me consumed
I’ve always been the type to notice
The smell of a r...
JUSTIN WETCH And then they kiss.
Slowly, gently.
Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels...
LISA MCMANN The "News," the conferences that leer,
the creeping fog, the civil traps.
These are what for...
WILLIAM EMPSON Fell in love first,
Fell in love quickly—Like I was pushed.
Fell in love next,
Fell...
KAMAND KOJOURI I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI moonlight disappears down the hills
mountains vanish into fog
and i vanish into poetry.
SANOBER KHAN Noah shifted on the bed, and the oddest crunching sound came underneath him. I looked, really looked...
MICHELLE HODKIN Me and my mom were driving to school, then out of the fog came a pile up of cars. We couldn't stop, ...
EMILY MWAKITAWA In the morning I woke like a sloth in the fog.
LESLIE CONNOR The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an ...
H. G. [HERBERT GEORGE] WELLS My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog.
ALEX O'LOUGHLIN O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly!
KOBAYASHI ISSA i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and n...
E.E. CUMMINGS Hey... you gonna ignore me like that?
...
Forever?
...
You gonna rej...
DEYTH BANGER Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and ec...
KENNETH BAKER The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunch...
CARL SANDBURG The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent hau...
CARL SANDBURG Do you ever feel that way?"
"Lonely?"
I search for the words. "Restless. As if you haven't...
LIBBA BRAY You start dying slowly
if you do not travel,
if you do not read,
If you do not lis...
MARTHA MEDEIROS Living without faith is like driving in a fog.
PROVERB Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it c...
ROBERT JORDAN My mind is being consumed by you.
My body is longing for you.
Just one touch or a kiss, <...
KAMAND KOJOURI Disappointment came to me,
and booted me,
and bruised and hurt me,
but that's how peo...
MORRISSEY I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said...
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Can you tell me what it means to waive your rights?"
I hold my breath as Jacob hesitates....
JODI PICOULT "I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
...
ALLAMA IQBAL Piece by piece,
I slowly fade away,
I slowly drift apart.
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it c...
ROBERT JORDAN I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants...
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN Uh, she said maybe your eyes matched the Fog like a synchronous magnetic field?”
“I don’...
JOEL N. ROSS You came to me like a dream, you held me in reality and will leave me gasping for your loving breath...
PAUL ACQUASANTA You know, Ava, it’s good to be smart, but kindness is more important.
ANITA DIAMANT The mind is the pit for which all dump trucks go to release their trash
ROSEMARIE YUSEN Darkness have consumed me, the light within me is gone.
ALEXANDER STRANDH You're watching me, princess." His soft lips spread into an appreciative smile.
"People might ...
TERA LYNN CHILDS I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be cons...
A.S. BYATT Ever, can't you just relax and enjoy the view? When was the last time you were in Paris anyway?"
ALYSON NOEL I started early, took my dog,
And visited the sea;
The mermaids in the basement
Came ...
EMILY DICKINSON Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted y...
AYN RAND the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which...
MARY OLIVER A white van drove slowly—as slowly as only an inexperienced and frightened driver could go—
MICHAEL GRANT If a thing is worth doing,
it is worth doing slowly . . .
very slowly
GYPSY ROSE LEE Riley was quiet for a minute. She gathered her blanket all around her. "Paul always loved you, Alice...
ANN BRASHARES You should always be kind to people, Ava. You never know what sorrows they’re carrying around.
ANITA DIAMANT You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the v...
MAYA ANGELOU Put up in a place
where it is easy to see
the cryptic admonishment
T.T.T
W...
PIET HEIN Celebrity status for me came slowly. I wasn't an overnight sensation. I had time to prepare emot...
SISSY SPACEK I knock on your door
let me get back in and turn me inside
I came up with humiliation afte...
QREMBIEZS I've played many characters that have consumed me and owned me.
IRRFAN KHAN LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implac...
CHARLES DICKENS I fell in love like you would fall asleep: slowly and then all at once.
JOHN GREEN Jenny, if you're so convinced I'm a loser, why did you bulldoze me into buying you coffee?'<...
ERICH SEGAL And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in th...
ANNE SEXTON I am walking down to the oak tree. And
I see that the tunnel is slightly wet, but
I jump i...
SANDRA HARNER so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then...
PABLO NERUDA The door is cracked
We used to meet
like water does land
no
not that
...
DAVE MATTHES First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist. MARTIN NIEMOLLER Why are you so upset? Why do you look like you’ve just lost your heart? Because the guy you’ve w...
BRYNNA GABRIELSON I dreamed I spoke in another's language,
I dreamed I lived in another's skin,
I dreamed I ...
CLIVE BARKER Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see your...
VERA NAZARIAN Without eliminating the fog in your mind, you won’t be able to see clearly! And how can you elimin...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shor...
RAY BRADBURY Oh, Jatel, I am so used. Would you rid yourself of me?" the knight started to cry.
Jatel ...
DONALD ALLEN KIRCH You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you."
My tongue warred with my mind. "Toda...
MICHELLE HODKIN When I did finally speak, I surprised myself by saying exactly what was on my mind.
“You must ha...
KRISTIN CAST Just as I said that, like a ghost, an 18-wheeler came out the fog. It just flattened a line of cars....
EMILY MWAKITAWA One day you'll miss me like i missed you
One day you'll cry for me like I cried for you and
...
NEIL GAIMAN I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN It made me giddy. It made me blush, worse than before. It was like liquor. It made me drunk. I drew ...
SARAH WATERS You want me to lie for you?" Aidan asked, watching them.
"Believe in me, the way ...
ANDREA HAIRSTON To Madeline,
This subtle second self
Sheaf of me
Can do more than you ever cou...
KELLY CREAGH Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
...
RAINER MARIA RILKE but if I had to describe the feeling of a crush, I’d say this: you just finished running a mile, a...
BECKY ALBERTALLI Suddenly, you will stop, you and me and all of us. Your lungs will rest at last and the electric pul...
SARAH MOSS Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can...
E. L. DOCTOROW Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can...
E.L. DOCTOROW I am not what you see.
I am what time and effort and interaction slowly unveil.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS Plastic ware," he said slowly, "like knives and forks and spoons?"
I brushed a bit of dirt off ...
SARAH DESSEN You remind me of a boy I used to know
Same Smile, same easy, laid-back style
And man, coul...
MALORIE BLACKMAN We've a bond, haven't we, Goaty? Fellow victims. Partners in survival. Though God knows what my mum ...
KATE CANN I know what I'm talking about, Alecto! When I think of Jud, I think of the times he wanted to be a c...
REBECCA MCNUTT We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands
and wrote my will across the sky in sta...
T.E. LAWRENCE I'm not with Rob," I say quickly. "Not anymore."
"You're not?" He's staring at me so intensely...
LAUREN OLIVER You look like crap, prince. Did you miss me?"
-Puck
JULIE KAGAWA LET’S GO BACK HOME
I can't think about you,
Without smiling.
What I wouldn’...
GIORGE LEEDY
More AVA.
oh, the heartbreakingly beautiful
tender weight of being human.
AVA. remember you are capable of the most powerful thing in the universe.
you are capable of l...
AVA. i swallowed the syllables of your name
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. every choice i have ever made after you existed
has been dependent on exactly
how close i ...
AVA. there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.
i've never been able to separat...
AVA. and sadness clung to me
because she did not know
how to be alone.
AVA. i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
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
and you wanted the most complicated answer,
but the answer...
AVA. i am awake and alive
and swollen and heavy
with love.
AVA. hold company with yourself so sacred
that even when you are alone,
you are whole.
AVA. i'm so hooked
on how your mind works,
on what you notice,
on everything that excites ...
AVA. some people are so deep
you fall into them
and you never stop falling.
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
human being...
AVA everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA. we get brave.
we move.
we believe.
we keep going.
AVA i can't hold onto love.
i'm not gentle enough.
i always end up
crushing the thi...
AVA. the opening,
the breaking,
the falling apart
is always so quick.
the hurti...
AVA. i open for you like a flower.
i let you in like a new day.
AVA everything i know about love
is that it hurts
and is almost always never returned
the...
AVA i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA i took it off.
i did not want to carry it with me anymore.
AVA. i feel everything.
i do not know how to un-feel
and to not feel
is to stop the sun.
AVA I want to be an old lady, with my cane, shouting, 'Action!' and 'Cut!'
AVA DUVERNAY Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our fil...
AVA DUVERNAY We know there needs to be diversity in storytellers telling their own stories. I think there's a...
AVA DUVERNAY Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, an...
AVA GARDNER How could she just leave me here to live without her? I miss her so much. I love her. I want her to ...
AVA DELLAIRA Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
AVA GARDNER You think you know someone, but that person always changes, and you keep changing, too. I understood...
AVA DELLAIRA What I told you about saving people isn't true. You might think it is, because you might want someon...
AVA DELLAIRA And maybe what growing up really means is knowing that you don't have to be just a character, going ...
AVA DELLAIRA I think a lot of people want to be someone, but we are scared that if we try, we won't be as good as...
AVA DELLAIRA God knows I've got so many frailties myself, I ought to be able to understand and forgive them in ot...
AVA GARDNER The way that we're consuming what we watch. Netflix, binge-watching, destination agnostic were n...
AVA DUVERNAY I am honored to be one of this year's Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival's 20th anniver...
AVA DUVERNAY When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be ...
AVA DUVERNAY You could make the most beautiful film, and that weekend it's raining too hard on the East Coast...
AVA DUVERNAY Because once you're afraid of one thing, you can get scared of a lot of stuff.
AVA DELLAIRA In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narr...
AVA DUVERNAY There's really no precedent for someone like me gaining clout in the space that I'm in - a b...
AVA DUVERNAY I usually make films with $2 and a paper clip.
AVA DUVERNAY The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.
AVA GARDNER We want to go home and see with our own eyes what the damage is before we decide if we're going to r...
AVA SEVIN We heard they had an oil spill. Whether it got to our house, we don't know.
AVA SEVIN We come here for meals and to see the people we've met from the different areas of New Orleans. We w...
AVA SEVIN On Saturday, when the mayor told everyone to evacuate New Orleans, we got everything together and go...
AVA SEVIN Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistak...
AVA GARDNER After my screen test, the director clapped his hands gleefully and yelled: "She can't talk! She can'...
AVA GARDNER I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, ...
AVA GARDNER I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. ...
AVA GARDNER I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.
AVA GARDNER What's the point? My face, shall we say, looks lived in.
AVA GARDNER Some people say Liz and I are whores, but we are saints. We do not hide our loves hypocritically, an...
AVA GARDNER I couldn't imagine a better place [Australia] for making a film on the end of the world.
AVA GARDNER For the loot, honey, for the loot.
AVA GARDNER I don't even really see sit-ins and marches as passive. I see them as quite assertive. I see tho...
AVA DUVERNAY I think any black woman is a queen. It's just, do you know it? Do you see it in yourself? Do you...
AVA DUVERNAY You gotta follow the white guys. Truly. They've got this thing wired. Too often, we live within ...
AVA DUVERNAY For female directors, there's a whole other set of things we have to think about, particularly w...
AVA DUVERNAY The consumer is deciding what they want to see and when and how, and filmmakers are more aware and a...
AVA DUVERNAY When we say there's a dearth of women directors, it's not that there's a lack of women w...
AVA DUVERNAY I liked the darkness, the dusty bay window, the view over the grey, muddy harbour and the towering c...
AVA BLOOMFIELD I took a deep, deep breath and held it in my core; kept it close behind my protruding, fleshless rib...
AVA BLOOMFIELD Maybe, in the final analysis, they saw me as something I wasn't and I tried to turn them into someth...
AVA GARDNER The numbers on the board don’t mean a thing, because for the first time in forever, I have somewhe...
AVA DELLAIRA You know when you think you know someone? More than anyone in the world? You know you know them, bec...
AVA DELLAIRA I'm a big people watcher and a people talker. The beautiful thing about being an artist and a cr...
AVA DUVERNAY Creativity is an energy. It's a precious energy, and it's something to be protected. A lot o...
AVA DUVERNAY Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.
AVA GARDNER There can be a progression to the dream; there can be steps to it. When you dissect any successful p...
AVA DUVERNAY With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hopi...
AVA DUVERNAY Oh, Diane Nash deserves her own film. Diane Nash is a freedom fighter who is still alive and kicking...
AVA DUVERNAY To win Best Director at Sundance was beyond anything I could have imagined for myself. It's stil...
AVA DUVERNAY I'm not going to make someone my priority, when I'm their option.
AVA PORTER Today, when you look at social media, you see that the narrative can be overtaken by people just fro...
AVA DUVERNAY Art morphs with what's going on in the world. We say 'Ferguson'; we don't say 'M...
AVA DUVERNAY I love community, I love to be around other people. I love to be around other people when everyone...
AVA DUVERNAY Film is a mirror. I want to see more filmmakers. We all want to see ourselves.
AVA DUVERNAY Every filmmaker imbues a movie with their own point of view.
AVA DUVERNAY There's a big difference between the independent film world and the Hollywood film world, and I ...
AVA DUVERNAY Film school was a privilege I could not afford.
AVA DUVERNAY I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film indus...
AVA DUVERNAY I financed and made my own films from the start. My path has been autonomous and independent, so I d...
AVA DUVERNAY There was a time when I was knocking on doors and concerned with being recognized in dominant cultur...
AVA DUVERNAY We're told that independent film lovers... folks that are used to watching art house films, won&...
AVA DUVERNAY 'Queen Sugar' is a drama about family. It's something that allows us to be ourselves and...
AVA DUVERNAY Oprah Winfrey is a big role model for me from a business capacity and a creative capacity. She is an...
AVA DUVERNAY Sometimes your music sounds like there’s too much inside you.
Maybe even you couldn’t get ...
AVA DELLAIRA I have only one rule in acting - trust the director and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historic...
AVA DUVERNAY Be passionate and move forward with gusto every single hour of every single day until you reach your...
AVA DUVERNAY There's been no major motion picture released by a studio, no independent motion picture, in the...
AVA DUVERNAY A black woman making art is a disruptive act. Every story that I tell as a woman is a political act,...
AVA DUVERNAY When I lose my temper, honey, you can't find it any place.
AVA GARDNER Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.
AVA GARDNER When he fell down the stairs, he told people he'd had a stroke. He was just pissed out of his skull....
AVA GARDNER But to me, they were beautiful, like their own constellation.
AVA DELLAIRA As long as you're in an environment where the worth of the project isn't based on the projec...
AVA DUVERNAY But you said you love me. You don’t just leave after that.
AVA DELLAIRA All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it...
AVA DUVERNAY I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able ...
AVA DUVERNAY I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who co...
AVA DUVERNAY Emptiness felt like a living thing. A parasite growing in the center of your chest, somewhere behind...
AVA JAE The best art is realized when you can share the experience of making of it and not just the presenta...
AVA DUVERNAY The studios aren't lining up to make films about black protagonists, black people being autonomo...
AVA DUVERNAY The most liberating moment, is the moment you finally let go.
AVA HARRISON I think that if we really want to break it down, that non-black filmmakers have had many, many years...
AVA DUVERNAY My interest as an artist is to illuminate the lives of black folks. I definitely am focused on films...
AVA DUVERNAY Oh gosh, I'm completely allergic to historical dramas. Particularly those around the civil-right...
AVA DUVERNAY I think it's like when you lose something so close to you, it's like losing yourself.
AVA DELLAIRA Women have been trained in our culture and society to ask for what we want instead of taking what we...
AVA DUVERNAY My next project is 'Venus Vs,' which is a documentary that follows tennis star Venus William...
AVA DUVERNAY You are bravery to me.
AVA DELLAIRA Sometimes your music sounds like there's too much inside of you. Maybe even you couldn't get it all ...
AVA DELLAIRA I think that by beauty, you don't just mean something that's pretty. You mean something that makes u...
AVA DELLAIRA You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
AVA DELLAIRA May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure...
AVA DELLAIRA We are each weird in a different way, but together, that's actually normal.
AVA DELLAIRA Artists should be free to create what we want. I believe there's a special value in work that is...
AVA DUVERNAY Nonviolence is pretty ballsy, pretty advanced weaponry.
AVA DUVERNAY Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistak...
AVA GARDNER I have only one rule in acting--trust the director, and give him heart and soul.
AVA GARDNER I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifull...
AVA DUVERNAY The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.
AVA FARMEHRI I like silence. Aesthetically, I feel strangled by the fast cutting and a wall of sound. And I think...
AVA DUVERNAY I really admire Werner Herzog and Spike Lee. They're amazing documentarians. If you took away al...
AVA DUVERNAY All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and...
AVA DUVERNAY When you have to face up to the fact that marriage to the man you love is really over, that's very t...
AVA GARDNER If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meani...
AVA DELLAIRA I feel like I am drowning in memories. Everything is too bright.
AVA DELLAIRA I think it’s like when you lose something so close to you, it’s like losing yourself. That’s w...
AVA DELLAIRA The thing about traditions is that they hold up the shape of your memory.
AVA DELLAIRA We do things sometimes because we feel so much inside of us, and we don’t notice how it affects so...
AVA DELLAIRA It's sad when everyone knows you, but no one knows you.
AVA DELLAIRA So maybe when we can say things, when we can write the words, when we can express how it feels, we a...
AVA DELLAIRA I know that it can be hard to believe that someone loves you if you are afraid of being yourself, or...
AVA DELLAIRA A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel, or not to f...
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 You usually find that this is the most romantic sex, because it starts out with long, luscious kisse...
DR AVA CADELL When you know you're never going to see someone again, you want to leave her wanting you - and you'l...
DR AVA CADELL There's a correlation between a woman's bottom lip and her vagina. Sucking gently on her lip will ma...
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