#angela

Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful. ↗

— Angela Carter

#flesh-and-the-mirror #art

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#funny #funny

She shrugs."Men" "Men." "If we can send one man to the moon, why can't we send them all there? ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#humor #humor

Okay, that was, I have to say, about the cheesiest thing I ever heard in my life,” I say to Angela as we’re milling around afterward. We hug, so Billy can take our picture. “I mean, seriously. Just be? You should write ads for Nike. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#clara #humor #humor

Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test. No passing or failing. There's only us, each moment shaping who we are, into what we will become. ↗

— Cynthia Hand

#inspirstional #purpose

I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me. ↗

— Angela Carter

#angela-carter #japan

How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? ↗

— Angela Carter

#angela-carter #japan

Haven't had your fill of interesting events?" "Never. They are the spice of life." She held up her half-finished hat. "How do you like it?" "It's nice. The blue is pretty. But what do the runes say?" "Raxacori-Oh, never mind. It wouldn't mean a thing to you anyway. Safe travels to you and Saphira, Eragon. And remember to watch out for earwigs and wild hamsters.  Ferocious things, wild hamsters."  ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#christopher-paolini #earwigs #eragon #hat #life

But Angela had at least 30% more viewers on the same night at the same time. I mean, she wiped everybody out. But the sponsors don't care when she had the most people. They only care about if there was only a handful of young viewers on the other one. ↗

— Sharon Gless

#angela #care #everybody #had #handful

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bruce #characters #clooney #doing #everyone