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Maya Angelou Quotes

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

History You Know More Your

I conduct myself as if I am a spaceman in Hollywood. I don't want to do anything fancy. I don't want people to send me free clothes. I just want to be grateful for this craft they let me do.

Myself Grateful I Am People Me Free

I think of myself more as a character actor than that ingenue leading lady, who started out something like Michelle Pfeiffer, or Jessica Lange. I'm a bit quirkier than that.

Character Myself Think Lady Actor

If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.

Great People College Me Impossible

It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

Person Now True More Events Take

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

Learning Lie Drive Parent Kid Scary

I believe that people of faith by and large have a great interest in the institution of family and that a family is a great place to learn leadership skills. I'm sure I benefited by having a mom and mad, both of whom were actively involved in the community and in various enterprises.

Family Leadership Faith Community

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Dead Flourish Fiction Most Strict

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

Christopher Walken

Business Think Movies Thirty More

I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

Clifford Geertz

Myself Writing Think Doing Happens

I used to be able to pick out the UFC fans when I was in the airport. Now, it could be anybody.

Now Airport Out Fans Used Able

My first job on the screen was 'Sea Patrol,' and that was quite intense, but I guess my first big break was 'SLiDE.'

Brenton Thwaites

Sea Job First Break Big Screen

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

Politics People Tough Long Last

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