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 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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My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
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The well-nurtured youth is one who would see most clearly whatever was amiss in ill-made works of man or ill-grown works of nature, and with a just distaste would blame and hate the ugly even from his earliest years and would give delighted praise to beauty, receiving it into his soul and being nourished by it, so that he became a man of gentle heart.
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I worked with Chris Squire on a Greg Lake record in the early '80s, worked with Alan White.
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The characters I've played, especially Bret Maverick and Jim Rockford, almost never use a gun, and they always try to use their wits instead of their fists.
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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.
