Andrea Arnold Quotes
I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I just heard the latest joke about my hair: 'Do you know what that is on her head? It's a steering wheel to drive the state.'
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.
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It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.
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I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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I like 'Sponge Bob' and 'The Last Airbender.' I like shows where people get creative to do the impossible.
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I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.
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There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.
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Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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It's very hard to find true friends when your life is a bumpy ride full of twists and turns. But, I'm glad that amidst all the ramblings in my life I have managed to win some great friends.
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I love to see my family together. That's what life is about. It's about family.
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The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body-builder.
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We hardly need to be reminded that we are living in an age of confusion - a lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria. Opinions can be picked up cheap in the market place while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.
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I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.
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I was doing musical theatre 'til I was, like, 17, and then I started realising I could use my voice in a more, like, current way.
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.
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We're somewhat lucky here in the United States, where we hope that the checks and balances hold out for many years to come and decades to come. But in a lot of countries, you don't have these checks and balances.
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I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.
