Angela Rye Quotes

My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

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• I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.

  

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• Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.

  

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• I realized I had been keeping people around even when deep down I knew they were bad for me. I had overridden myself.

  

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• It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

  

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• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  

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• It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.

  

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• When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.

  

  Laura Fraser
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• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

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• I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.

  

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• To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.

  

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• Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.

  

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• I've been very lucky.

  

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• People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'

  

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• I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.

  

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• I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

  

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• I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

  

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• The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.

  

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• There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.

  

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• When I read out loud in class, it was a joy for everyone else because I would mispronounce things so badly. I used to try to count how many people were in front of me and then work out which paragraph I would have to read out and start trying to learn it. And I would sit there thinking, 'Please let the bell go so that it doesn't get round to me.'

  

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• The actors I would like to work with are Julia Roberts, just because I've admired her work for a long time, well Brad Pitt. I think you know my reasons.

  

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• My father constantly reminded me that he named me after Angela Yvonne Davis, a scholar and activist who was well known for her work in tandem with the Black Panther Party. That felt like a purposeful, beckoning call to engage in strategic resistance and to fight for the oppressed.

  

  Angela Rye
  • Work
  • Father
  • Black