Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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I see myself not only as a football player, but an entertainer and icon.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
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People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.
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No entrepreneur ever publicly admits to bribing, but few dare to openly claim they don't, either.
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Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
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There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
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What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise.
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If the nation is rich but people are poor, the country cannot be strong, and society will be unstable.
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There will be a lot of competitive and strong companies coming here and even though Kosovo is a small country that undoubtedly has a lot to offer to global trade; one of our main interests is to expose it to the world market.
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THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
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I've learned love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body.
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En art comme en amour, l'instinct suffit.
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Poorer people tend to watch more television because they can't afford other diversions.
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I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.
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This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
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There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.
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That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.
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I don't read reviews.
