Maya Angelou Quotes
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
Quotes to Explore
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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Kids will ask us 'How do you become famous?' It's the wrong question. Focus on the craft, not on the fame.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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The drama is a great revealer of life.
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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
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My wife and I are raising five children, and it's tough between two people, let alone with one that's working full-time and is stressed out and coming home to a lot of difficulties.
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And a Famous Film Star who is left alone is more alone than any other person has ever been in the whole Histry of the World, because of the contrast to our normal enviromint.
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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
