Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I don't see myself only as a Somali character. I think of myself as an actor, and if the job fits me and I like the story, I will go for it.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings.
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When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
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Friend of mine, a smart journalist, had his iPad stolen. He couldn't help that - the thief broke into his house. But his private, personal data wasn't stolen, exactly. Donated, more like. He had no passcode set on the iPad.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.
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'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'
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Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
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That's what survival means, for me. I thought it was a matter of staying alive, but it isn't. Nobody lives forever anyway. It's how you're remembered. It's what your children thought of you, what they think of you after you're dead. That's survival.
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We shall not shock anyone, we shall merely expose ourselves to good-natured or at any rate harmless ridicule, if we profess ourselves inclined to the old fashioned and simple opinion according to which Machiavelli was a teacher of evil.
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I loved you, you know... It's not my fault the world is what it is.
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If you have to improve your fuel efficiency every year, it leads to innovation.
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I really do feel guilty that I don't visit me mum enough.
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History shows that there is no more potent engine for reform than the passion of voters who feel betrayed by the politicians they hoped would do the right thing.
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I was a freestyle dancer; I wasn't trained.
