Angela Robinson Quotes

'Dreamgirls' is special to me.

Angela Robinson

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• I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Doing

• I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Girl
  • Try

• I don't speak Spanish. I understand enough of it, having spent some time running Telemundo, and I put in a lot of time in Spain during the Barcelona Olympics. But I don't pretend to speak Spanish, and I don't want anyone to think that I can.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Time
  • Think
  • Running

• I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Long
  • Insane
  • Sanity

• Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • People
  • Better
  • Yourself

• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Effort
  • Listen
  • Duck

• It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that to be the case for myself, I was probably the worst closer out there and I didn't find that was true of my top super stars either.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Real
  • True
  • Myself

• All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Man

• If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.

  

  Calvin Peete
  • Golf
  • Jewelry
  • Sugar

• Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Car
  • Sports

• I think any message behind a lifestyle brand should embrace everyone.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Think
  • Brand
  • Lifestyle

• Now, my mom did not read well and she read 'True Romance' magazines, but she read with me. And she would spend 30 minutes a day, her finger going along the page, and I learned to read. Eventually, by the time I was four and a half, she could iron and I could sit there and read the 'True Romance.' And that was wonderful.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Time
  • She
  • True

• I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• I started reading G. K. Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday' on a subway ride, almost missed my stop, and walked home thumbing pages.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Home
  • Man
  • Stop

• I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Long
  • American
  • Sometimes

• Although 95 percent of the world's market for products exists outside the U.S., many small firms do not have the resources and personnel to take advantage of these opportunities.

  

  Sam Graves
  • World
  • Small
  • Opportunities

• As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Fear
  • Stand

• I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• He Giovanni Ardini, Italian master-carver opened up a new vista for me of the quality of form, light, and colour contained in the Mediterranean conception of carving.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Up
  • Light
  • Quality

• There's a big difference between France and the U.S. In the U.S., immigrants must work to live. In France, they're taken care of by public finances. In France, there are millions of unemployed people already. We cannot house them, give them health care, education... finance people who keep coming and coming.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Work
  • Live

• It's nice when people say, 'God, I've been listening to you since 1963 or 1985, or whatever.' I appreciate anybody who goes out and buys music these days.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• I don't have to go around trying to save everybody anymore; that's not my job.

  

  Jada Pinkett Smith
  • Trying
  • Job

• The officials want China to be seen as a cultured, creative nation, but in this anti-liberal political society everything outside the direct control of the state is seen as a potential threat.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Society
  • Political
  • Control

• 'Dreamgirls' is special to me.

  

  Angela Robinson