Maya Angelou Quotes
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.
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Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.
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I've been listening to a lot of music by Arca.
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It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label...Most people don't have any dignity in the first place.
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I don't think I can ever write about young kids anymore. I completely shot my wad there.
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Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody. Psychologists call this the maturity principle. My own life experience fits this principle to a T.
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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
