Maya Angelou Quotes
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I still think in this country, and this might surprise you, the one thing that George Bush said as president that I do agree with, I love that phrase, 'the soft bigotry of low expectations.'
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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Venus favors the bold.
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I'm a fast writer.
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It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her. All the survival stuff, too. And then the next album is 'Maya,' which is not my real name. It's fake.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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My thinking is lot more different with many actresses in the industry. I don't understand why people in showbiz put their profession of acting in the back seat after marriage.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'
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I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you're playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you're lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it's like, 'I want to be home. I'm a dad. I've got kids.'
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Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.
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We cannot put off living until we are ready.
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I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.
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Happiness is a state of mind.
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
