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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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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The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.
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I think vestigially there's a synesthete in me, but not like a real one who immediately knows what colour Wednesday is.
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Laughter is a strange response. I mean, what is it? It's a spasm of some kind! Is that always joy? It's very often discomfort. It's some sort of explosive reaction. It's very complex.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
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Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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All over the world when you test men and women for facial cue recognition, women test... better. Its a negotiation tool.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
