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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Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.
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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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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
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Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.
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At my age, I don't think anyone is untouched by cancer.
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In any election, it's important that the public perceive that the election is held fairly.
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When comparing the time scales of genetic and cultural evolution, it is useful to bear in mind that we today - every one of us - can easily understand many ideas that were simply unthinkable by the geniuses in our grandparents' generation!
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Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
