Andrea Arnold Quotes
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
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If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.
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I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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One of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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But if there's an erosion at home, you know, Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy, we've made a terrible mistake.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)
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Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.
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There are only so many chords and notes in the world.
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The future is going to require really smart people. What we think are crises today probably will be no big deal, and we have no idea what will really be crises in the future.
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My observation on most people in national governments is that they have very little interest in and very little knowledge of the multinational institutions.
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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
