Maya Angelou Quotes
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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I have a great office.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Kids have been let down by adults - we've tried to give them too much, we've tried not to impose discipline. We've tried to make their lives easier and, in doing so, we've taken something away from them. Kids like boundaries, they also like to be pushed, need to learn what failure is all about, need guidance.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
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I always think the true test of free speech is when someone says something you don't like.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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The Temple will not be completed until every living stone is there. And then what? The next thing will be that which our Masonic friends make so much of, and which we make so much of namely: the glorification of the temple.
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'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
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We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
