Icons Quote by Ava DuVernay Download Open image “When you say cultural icon, I scrunch my nose.” — Ava DuVernay ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Icons Noses
I'm sorry, but I can't imagine being an American icon! It would be pretty difficult to look at your face in the mirror and… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
Cultures render their icons in their own image. Which comes down to vanity, in some sense. — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
My cultural identity is obviously a huge part of my design aesthetic. — Masaba Gupta Copy Share Image
To be a true icon, you have to have style emanating from you. And you have to have figured it out on your own… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
“Find a reason to turn your nose up at a culture, to denigrate a people because they are different, and it's not such a… — Ronald H. Balson Copy Share Image
If you go back to the hood in America, I think most of them look at me like an icon. An icon is somebody… — Boosie Copy Share Image
I'm Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures. — Chelsea Peretti Copy Share Image
“My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
We're living based on laws and ideas that we, as a society, embraced back in the days of slavery. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
All the traditional models for doing things are collapsing; from music to publishing to film, and it's a wide open door for people who… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Netflix represents, as well as all the streaming services, something that I've been talking about being so important to inclusive voices around films. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I've been to Sundance eight times as a publicist and thought I was very prepared. I mean, who could've been more prepared for me?… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think it's a wonderful time to be a black woman who makes films. It's a good time to be an artist period. Traditional… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I think for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
I make films about black women and it doesn't mean that you can't see them as a black man, doesn't mean that he can't… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
The documentaries were something that I could do for a small amount of money, and then I felt like as long as I found… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously. — RuPaul Copy Share Image
We segregate men from women, and no matter how many times we insist that men and women are equal, men and women should be… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with… — Orlando Figes Copy Share Image
My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light. — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
The SF genre, of course, is really an organically evolved, marketplace-determined, idiosyncratic grab bag of themes and signifiers and characters and icons and gadgets,… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. — Marina and the Diamonds Copy Share Image
Jerry Garcia was one of the original American icons. He played naturally and beautifully. — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
"You're a sex icon." Why? Because I played a vampire in a movie? It's all very unearned. If I had the best freaking abs… — Kellan Lutz Copy Share Image
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