Maya Angelou Quotes
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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It's not so easy to forgive.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
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However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
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I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.
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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
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Gymnastics is so huge in the Olympics. There are a lot of fans who want to see more.
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Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
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I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
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I love the idea of metamorphosing and changing, the legalized insanity of acting.
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One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
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We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
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If you can't forgive, don't ask to be forgiven.
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I have published a proclamation: 'Forgive us our transgressions as we forgive those who transgress against us.' I have ordered all citizens to return to their parishes to enjoy the benefits of this general amnesty.
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
