Maya Angelou Quotes
I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The Catholic Church was the church of the colonial fascist regime.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
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Charm, I think, is education, really, no? I was educated to be nice to everybody. If you want to be rude and mean, I'm sure your life isn't that nice.
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I was thrilled to work opposite Carl Reiner and Robert De Niro. Mr. Reiner was very chatty and delightful, but I learned that if you want Robert De Niro to like you, don't speak at all, and he'll be friendly to you.
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The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.
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But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.
