Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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What is extraordinary about the character of Edna - and I speak as though I am completely outside this character and I am talking to you - I'm, as it were, in the wings, and she's on stage, and every now and then she says something extremely funny, and I stand there and think: 'I wish I'd thought of that.'
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Real luxury is customization.
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To deal with local pollution, China has put on the agenda the capping of coal, which has long been a sensitive issue.
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No one today knows what is indecent.
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We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.
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Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism. So I distance myself, because I feel everything.
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If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.
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If what I went through on a national level, the trouble between me and my wife, if it helps one couple going through the same thing... if it saves one family, it's worth it.
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It's impossible in heptathlon to have a proper rivalry - you're spending two days together and seven events and dedicate your life to it. It's like a marathon: two days of mental and physical exhaustion.
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Every artist is an artist, and every heartbeat is a heartbeat.
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Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
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Having been selected to be an author in the World Book, I now believe that Wikipedia is a perfectly fine source for your information, because I know what the quality control is for real encyclopedias - they let me in.
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So blend the turrets and shadows thereThat all seem pendulous in air,While from a proud tower in the townDeath looks gigantically down.
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It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.
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Sol found their tracts the usual combination of double talk and navel lint-gathering common to most religions.
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He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.
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I would love to be in a zone concept every once in a while. Probably later on in my career.
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...of two simple men I saw today on the pier in the midst of the crowd, parting the parting of dear friends, the one to remain hung on the other's neck and passionately kissed him. While the one to depart tightly pressed the one to remain in his arms.
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Time. There seems to be vast quantities of the stuff spooling around me in all directions, everywhere i look. Days and hours. Weeks and minutes. Years. The hard part, ive discovered, is filling it.
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My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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You learn on every film so much.
