Angela Scanlon Quotes

Angela Scanlon

Profession : Journalist

Birth : December 29, 1983

It's hard sometimes - to shake yourself off, say out loud the things you dream of - but taking that chance, that leap of faith, that bravery will always pay off.

Angela Scanlon

I grew up an Irish Catholic - which I now have mixed feelings about - so went to mass. As we got older, Mum and Dad left us four girls at home.

Angela Scanlon

Mushrooms grow from rot and thrive on death. It feels symbolic.

Angela Scanlon

I wouldn't get Botox because mainly I think it looks pretty rubbish. You still look your age, just more... Botoxed. A little frozen. Kind of stuck in gear. Shiny. Shocked.

Angela Scanlon

In 2007, an ex-boyfriend took me to see The Rolling Stones in Slane. It was sunny and I was wearing a Topshop jacket and wellies I got that morning in Penneys. So far, so normal... until he arranged for us to be picked up in his garden in a helicopter.

Angela Scanlon

I try to be honest and open and there's vulnerability in doing that, and insecurity in posting certain things but I think it's important to show a realistic sense of life and not just the shiny things.

Angela Scanlon

I always use the Calm or Headspace apps - even if it's ten minutes on the Tube.

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I try to do hair masks once a week.

Angela Scanlon

Relentless is not the sexiest word to describe yourself. But I will say I am resilient. I don't wound easily.

Angela Scanlon

We want to see 'real' women. Women who represent us, who are the same as us, who look and feel and seem like us. Women who share our problems, our joys and our lives. We are not content anymore with a nameless face no matter how beautiful, a clotheshorse with a vacant stare will not sell anything to us anymore.

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Going on reality TV is a shrewd business move now: I miss the innocence of how it used to be.

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When I have a night of fitful brainstorming, I embrace it. I open my notebook and let it all pour out.

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I've never had routine in my life.

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I always think I look like a bit of a hobo. I'm fine on the TV, but in real life I'm a bit dishevelled.

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I'm honest, sometimes to a fault.

Angela Scanlon

I've spent time in Austria, France, Italy, America, Australia, India, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.

Angela Scanlon

Sleep is like medicine, it fixes us.

Angela Scanlon

Listening to the soundtrack of other people's lives and learning from them is a pretty perfect way to spend hours that are generally written off.

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I save images of houses covered in herbs and shrubs and exotic leafy stalks. I imagine a domestic goddess living among the greenery. The type of woman who demands you remove your shoes before entering the 'space.' She wears a kimono.

Angela Scanlon

I spend more time per day on my phone than should be legal for any human.

Angela Scanlon