Angela Bowie Quotes

I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.

Angela Bowie

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• Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Why
  • Sometimes
  • Dance

• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

  Vanity
  • Me
  • Joy
  • Jesus

• A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • More
  • Dinner

• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Out
  • Indignation

• I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented.

  

  Danai Gurira
  • People
  • Writing
  • Women

• When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Politics
  • Accountability

• The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Cool

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

  

  Sam Richards
  • United States
  • Odd
  • United

• The military executes policy decisions.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Policy

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Suffering
  • Principle

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.

  

  Tara Strong
  • Think
  • More
  • Now

• I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Community
  • Independence
  • Big

• I used to win at school, and some teacher said to me, 'Why don't you take up running like your sisters?'

  

  Genzebe Dibaba
  • Up
  • School
  • Why

• It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society

• I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.

  

  Ty Burrell
  • People
  • Real
  • Fun

• I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.

  

  Amiri Baraka
  • People
  • Great
  • America

• I used to know kids better because I was teaching in a classroom, but I still have a sense of comfort with them. I don't believe that kids have essentially changed.

  

  Cynthia Voigt
  • Believe
  • Kids

• I didn't feel the need to rebel as a teenager. From age nine to 16, I went to school in Montreux in Switzerland, and it was heaven. I went to England for the Easter holidays, Cyprus for Christmas and summer holidays, and I was delighted to have that independence.

  

  Angela Bowie
  • School
  • Age
  • Heaven