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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Revising a screenplay is much more frustrating than revising a song because you have to read through the entire work again while you are changing stuff. It is a lot easier to edit a song.
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Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.
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I was obsessed with Carol Burnett and then Tracey Ullman. Like, obsessed with their shows.
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People need to hear what I have to say. There's no one else who can say what I can say. It doesn't matter what I live.
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You learn on every film so much.
