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Serious Quotes by Maya Angelou
- Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery.
- I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good…
- If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever…
- I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine…
- I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat.…
- I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and…
- One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying…
- You're not serious; you're boring as hell.
- When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
- You might encounter defeats but you must never be defeated... Love a lot. Laugh a lot at the silliest things and be very serious... love…
- What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’....…
More Serious Quotes
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the… — David Attenborough
- I'm not involved in light, frivolous matters. I'm not involved in fringe or side issues. I'm involved in serious issues. — Michele Bachmann
- I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I work in… — Michele Bachmann
- I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. — David Bailey
- Serious journalism need not be solemn. — Russell Baker
- How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun. — Christian Bale
- I tend to stay in character between scenes... to be rather serious on set, but here's why, and I think people will… — Christian Bale
- The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious. — Lester Bangs
- When I think about moguls, I think like Donald Trump who... owns NYC practically. That's a mogul. I feel like I'm on… — Tyra Banks
- Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by… — Javier Bardem