Andrea Arnold Quotes
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
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Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
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Most people know Muslims in their community but don't realize it.
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I think there are things that you look for when you're younger, and you think they are going to make you happier or make you feel complete. That's not going to happen, and it's really about living the moments. Eventually, you reach a point when you're at ease with your life and don't have any unrealistic expectations.
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Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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I enjoy being a girl.
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So there's nothing more provocative than taking a genre that everybody who's cool hates - and then making it cool.
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I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.
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I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
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You say that faith is a gift; this is perhaps the most correct thing that can be said about it.
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Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I’d be against it on moral grounds.
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But, suppose, besides, that the making of the new machinery affords employment to a greater number of mechanics, can that be called compensation to the carpet makers, thrown on the streets?
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
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Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.
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I was a sitting target, in a way, for anybody who wanted to make some kind of headline. … I certainly never supported the Fatwa, but when I was asked about … the actual principle of blasphemy and capital punishment, well, like the Bible, I said, 'You know, yeah, it's there, it's in the Koran.' And I couldn't deny that.
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Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world.
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In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today’s shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.
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There is no more striking illustration of the immobility of British institutions than the House of Commons.
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I normally go with the flow.
