Maya Angelou Quotes
I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.
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I always miss my mom. Mother's Day would be just one more day I'd feel her absence but for the relentless commercialization. Thanks to that, this day is even harder to deal with.
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I really don't have a favorite meal. I eat anything.
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We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
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I'm extremely grateful that I found writing, but it doesn't make it any more peaceful.
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I'm floored that the House leadership would turn its back on job creation for Mississippians.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'
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When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.
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The fact that President Obama gave up his public holiday (today is the President’s Day) and held the US-Asean Leaders Summit has shown Washington’s recognition towards the importance of Asean
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Grateful daughters of God guard their bodies carefully, for they know they are the wellsprings of life, and they reverence life. They don't uncover their bodies to find favor with the world. They walk in modesty to be in favor with their Father In Heaven. They know he loves them dearly.
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I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.
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When I'm traveling out of the country, a lot of guys give me a high five, and then they're like, 'I love your work!'
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I got to know Coach Wooden at the end of his life.
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I spilt paint all over the bar, they almost fired me.
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I became sort of an aficionado on the Valentino pajamas, because I like those so much.
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I tended to listen to doo-wop, but my grandmother would always have the radio on all day and she'd start with Yiddish and then move on to gospel and later to "make believe" ballroom music. I got to hear all kinds of music and my mother would get up to go to work listening to country music. That was her alarm clock. My dad was a jazz lover and listened to the man who wrote "Misty", Errol Garner. He loved piano players, so I got to listen to that as well.
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If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?
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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.
