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Maya Angelou Quotes

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: April 4, 1928 - May 28, 2014

Topics

Love Great You Want Whatever Able

Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

Girl Growing Up Growing Never Up

My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'

Joe R. Lansdale

Father Car People Looking Black You

A lot of young people don't have a lot of faith in politicians. You can't depend on what they say. They talk in circles. They don't speak the kind of language that has truth to them. I'm speaking differently.

Faith Truth People Speak Language

I still think of Columbia as one Rita Hayworth movie a year, or maybe one a year directed by Frank Capra in the '30s. To see how many really outstanding movies Columbia made, and all together, is kind of eye-opening.

Together Think Year Movies Kind See

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

Technology Road You New Over Once

I'm a very active person. I'm a big tomboy, throwing around a football, hiking... all that stuff I love.

Tracy Spiridakos

Love Football Person Active Big

I don't think I knew I would be a writer. I wanted to become a writer, and I tried to write.

Romesh Gunesekera

Think Become Write Would Knew Tried

If I do a role where I have to lose weight, I can do that. I eat meat, fish, vegetables, and I lose it right away. But sometimes I do a role where I have to gain weight, and I can tell you I prefer that.

Monica Bellucci

Fish You Lose I Can Vegetables Meat

It's funny, you know, growing up, you are always introduced to people as your uncle this or your aunt that or your cousin this. By the time I was in my 20s, I had no idea who I actually was or wasn't related to. It's kind of a running joke in the family.

Family Funny Time People Growing Up

Of course you can find something exciting and dynamic in any character you want to portray.

Character You Find Want Something

Everything motivates me to do my work. Has anyone seen me in any commercial or in anything that is not related to the films? No, because filmmaking and acting is my only work.

Work Me Acting Filmmaking Everything

Skype is one of the world's greatest inventions. I use it almost daily to connect with the people I care about when I'm away shooting. It makes the distance so much more bearable and I actually feel like I'm in the same room as my loved ones.

Daily People World Care Loved Feel

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