Maya Angelou Quotes
I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
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I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.
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The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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What's great about working on a sitcom is that I spend so much time with people who are in other fields as well, such as writing, directing, and/or camera operating. Being on set is like being on a playground. I go from one thing to the next, and I've learned so much and hope to continue learning.
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Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check 'Deadline Hollywood' and my Twitter feed, as well as the 'Daily Beast,' the 'New York Times,' 'Metsblog,' and 'Thejetsblog.'
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Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.
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I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.
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I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.
