Angie Thomas Quotes
We see organizations that target young black men to give them direction in life, but so often, black girls are missed. I wanted to represent them.
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When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had just broken up with him because I didn't think I was good enough. He wanted to be an anesthesiologist. I wanted to be an entertainer. His life was more planned out, and mine wasn't.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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When you come across someone colorful and vibrant maybe in the present it isn't so interesting, but, in the past, it sheds a wonderful light onto living life.
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I've always been aware of my health - when you are having to go on stage and perform, you need to be feeling good - but when I was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, I became really, really conscious of my health.
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Women want to feel wanted. Men want to feel needed.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
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I've also grown as an actor as I've got older in life. I've learnt how to go to work, immerse myself 100 per cent in the character and, at the end of the day, take it all off and go back, get a nice bubble bath, have a nice massage and realise that is not my life. And that feels good.
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If we look at Houston, which is a very environmentally toxic place, we find that it has one of the highest levels of young men going to prison and also among the highest levels of illiteracy in the country.
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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church. They're afraid God might recognize them and ask for autographs.
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How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.
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There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature.
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We see organizations that target young black men to give them direction in life, but so often, black girls are missed. I wanted to represent them.
