Dahlak Sultanate Quotes & Sayings

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informationsof others. — Lord Chesterfield

People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed. — Gina Prince-Bythewood

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

You don't make movies to be art movies. You make movies that move you emotionally because if you're going to commit five years of your life to a movie, you need something to keep you going. — Saul Zaentz

I was watching TV at age 9 or 10, and my mom said that I came from the front room and I told her that I want to act. And she said if you want to do this at 18, then you can. It was a very simple story, yet, I do not even remember the conversation that I had with my mother. Until she reminded me of the story many years later. — Derek Luke

Ifemelu was looking forward to being away from home, to the independence of owning her own time. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess. — Anatoly Karpov