Angela Scanlon Quotes

Angela Scanlon

Profession : Journalist

Birth : December 29, 1983

Shoes have always been an issue for me. The more fantastical and ridiculous the better. The brighter, the shinier, the shaggier, the more I love them.

Angela Scanlon

Robot Wars' is very destructive but on the other hand it is good clean innocent fun.

Angela Scanlon

I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the perfectly placed pointes, the willowy, whispery arms and the bulging tights are years of turmoil and graft, actual blood, sweat and tears.

Angela Scanlon

I dabbled in and out of meditation for a long time, but then I was doing it every day and it definitely kept me sane.

Angela Scanlon

I pitched ideas for fashion stories to magazines for years. And it was often; 'No, no, nope, next,' or worse, just silence.

Angela Scanlon

Dublin to London is a commute.

Angela Scanlon

There is something utterly magical about a pair of metallic shoes, make them ankle boots and the magic doubles.

Angela Scanlon

If you become too aware of people looking at you, and worrying about what they think, it's exhausting.

Angela Scanlon

Giving birth to my daughter was certainly memorable, like a slap in the face. I arrived at the hospital in total denial, having not married up pregnancy with the fact I'd leave with a child. Popping her out took some effort and it changed my whole life, forcing me to be still and to confront the realities I'd been running from.

Angela Scanlon

There's nothing like stumbling upon some dimly-lit pub with nothing but pints and toasties on offer; or finding the most unkempt, underwhelming cafe that serves the best crab claws in the world; or a wildly eccentric candy-coloured tea room with cakes for days and tea made of flowers.

Angela Scanlon

Weather is the bane of our lives, a collective national obsession and the thing you talk about when natural, interesting conversation escapes you. It's our crutch and it's not just for biddies down the shops or the lads before a match.

Angela Scanlon

I don't like the idea that everything I do is predetermined.

Angela Scanlon

I have my most brilliant and creative ideas when I'm counting sheep. I wish I could nod off but instead my mind is abuzz with solutions and projects.

Angela Scanlon

There is something beautifully vulnerable and transparent about 'putting yourself out there' in a really honest way.

Angela Scanlon

I have always had a tumultuous relationship with plants. I fall head over heels, we start off so well but within days, sometimes even hours, my beautiful green lover has wilted before my eyes.

Angela Scanlon

I don't have anything to hide. I don't live a celebrity life.

Angela Scanlon

We should be used to the unpredictable nature of our weather system, the fact that low fronts and high pressure and the notion of sun, rain and snow in one day mean absolutely nothing because the weather likes to make an eejit out of you. It lulls you into a false sense of security, it messes with your head.

Angela Scanlon

I like to think I'm an early adopter but sometimes my mind moves faster than my body.

Angela Scanlon

The appeal of 'Robot Wars' for me was to get my hands dirty, to be in the moment and to be with people while they were getting prepared, so I could really get a sense of their personalities as well as the work and the passion that goes into building the robots.

Angela Scanlon

I'm obsessed with mushrooms, they're beautiful.

Angela Scanlon