Maya Angelou Quotes
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'Maya Angelou
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
Caleb Landry Jones -
Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
Jack Keane -
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
Illeana Douglas -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
Gary Johnson
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
Naomi Campbell -
It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
Carlos Ghosn -
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
Larry David -
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
Cameron Russell -
I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
Harold Pinter -
I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
Naftali Bennett -
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard -
To come in and win three races already this year and maybe set a record by winning four is pretty unique. But guys like Mark Martin, Rusty Wallace and these guys are not wanting that to happen.
Dale Earnhardt -
The truth is, I'm not body confident.
Tamsin Egerton -
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
Rachel Tucker
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
Maggie Stiefvater -
I've stated that it's possible the only reason I'm in show business is that I have such a strange, particular head of hair. That, and I can grow a red beard.
T. J. Miller -
An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.
Abraham Lincoln -
Curtailment of free speech is rationalized on grounds that a more compelling American tradition forbids criticism of the government when the nation is at war... Nothing can be more destructive of our fundamental democratic traditions than the vicious effort to silence dissenters.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass - the slave narrative - speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'
Maya Angelou