Andrea Arnold Quotes
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I find the business world hard.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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She told me that she would support me regardless of what I decided, but I'm so glad that I actually got to be a kid before having to grow up. My mom knows best about this kind of thing.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I love food - I am never on a diet - I swear to God!
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I am secular to the bones, but not an atheist.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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Growing up in Fife, you were aware that there were these creatures called lesbians, but it was in the realms of complete freakishness. And I didn't feel like a freak.
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And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
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There are three things in the world that he held in the smallest esteem - slugs, poets and caddies with hiccups.
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
