Angela Thomas Quotes

We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

Angela Thomas

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• I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Old

• When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Forgotten

• Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Web
  • Applications

• Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Me
  • Wants

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• A lot of people don't like me.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • People
  • Me
  • Like

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • English
  • Literature
  • Chaos

• I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Pride

• First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Training

• I have a lot of successful musician pals, and as I get older, I find that I'm lucky to be a writer. I have great anonymity compared to musicians who sell the same number of records as I do books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Great
  • Same
  • Musicians

• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Ignorance
  • Fate

• I had crushes on women - actually I loved charismatic, extreme people, women or men. By high school I was saying I must be a lesbian, because if you are attracted to women, you're a lesbian. I was also attracted to men, but I didn't get along with men.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-06-06). Linus Torvalds - LKML. Retrieved on 2014-10-06.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• 'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • She
  • Proud

• Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Pain
  • Workplace

• I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

  

  Chevy Chase
  • Single

• Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • She
  • Positive
  • Sun

• My goal as an actor has always been to reach a level where I can find a lot of interesting work, and I think I'm at that point now. The Oscar has given me a lot of recognition.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Work
  • Interesting

• Some people feel affronted when something they thought to be true doesn't happen. If that's the case, then your sense of risk is much higher, and that leads to risk aversion. You need to be able to be comfortable in uncertainty.

  

  James Mattis
  • People
  • True
  • Risk

• Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Death
  • Black

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  Boethius

• We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.

  

  Angela Thomas
  • Life
  • Living
  • Pretending