Maya Angelou Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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I have lived a carnal life.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Music was a big outlet for me. Being able to play an instrument and sing was definitely a good way for me to escape things I was dealing with: family issues, growing up, being a kid and not knowing what I wanted to do with my life.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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The whole point of having money, and working and making money, is to enjoy and spend it.
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We are well aware of the task ahead of us in what will be a very difficult match but which we all dream of playing.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.
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I want to try everything.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
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I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.
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I would much rather be on the couch all the time. But it turns out, I'm also agreeable. I'll agree to do a lot of things.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.
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It was fortunate in looking back for South Africa and its entire people that Mandela and I found it possible to work together even though big strains developed between us from time to time.
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Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.
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I got my own back.
