Andrea Arnold Quotes
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It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I'm very drawn to the human condition and the emotional aspects of stories. It's what's not on the page that I get excited about.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.
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A surgeon wouldn't sell his tools. A lawyer doesn't sell his law books. I'm not going to sell my horse. I'm a sportsman.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivations that come with that, but beneath that, we form cultures and traditions that are beautiful.
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I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write.
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Shakespeare pulls on us and demands the best of us. You never successfully wrestle one of his plays to the ground and say, 'See? That's It!'
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Anyhow, I arrived, and I did feel pretty weird, actually, as if I’d left something behind. My head or something.
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A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.
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We don't merge kernel code just because user space was written by a retarded monkey on crack.
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None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.
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The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.
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I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
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I think lot of Muslims have gotten fatigued by the way Muslim characters, even 'positive' ones, are portrayed in the media.
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I've not used a score in any of my films so far.