Angela Thirkell Quotes

It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

Angela Thirkell

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• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• The thought of going on tour with people like Toyah Wilcox is just appalling. I'm certainly not tempted.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
  • Like
  • Thought

• I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Why
  • Me

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Travels
  • Who

• I don't back down. I don't cave when the pressure gets too great from these partisan political ideological forces.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Political
  • Pressure

• I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Remember
  • Daughter
  • Driver

• Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Promise

• I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Hustle

• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Way
  • Quality
  • Changing

• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Up
  • War
  • Problem

• The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Time
  • Funny

• I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Think
  • Same
  • Talk

• I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Good
  • Things
  • Happen

• I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Ideas
  • Happens
  • Boat

• A single kind of red cell is supposed to have an enormous number of different substances on it, and in the same way there are substances in the serum to react with many different animal cells. In addition, the substances which match each kind of cell are different in each kind of serum. The number of hypothetical different substances postulated makes this conception so uneconomical that the question must be asked whether it is the only one possible. ... We ourselves hold that another, simpler, explanation is possible.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • Different
  • Question
  • Single

• I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog­ress are real.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Hollywood is kind of a bad world.

  

  Mia Maestro
  • World
  • Hollywood

• To share a lot of ideas - not ideas - emotions, a way of looking at people, a way of looking at life. If it can be shared, it means there is a common denominator.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • People
  • Life
  • Mean

• It is rather depressing to think that one will still be oneself when one is dead, but I dare say one won't be so critical then.

  

  Angela Thirkell
  • Dead
  • Critical
  • Oneself