Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I kind of like the idea of living a rather ordinary life as a shopkeeper, and I examine that possibility as one of the outcomes of the young Gerald Bostock growing older.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I'm happiest when I'm moving.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.
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I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.
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I'm capable of living in the moment. And I'm especially capable of living in the moment of sitting on my sofa and watching other people's moments.
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Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fineHere comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on timeThere go the street lights bringin on the nightHere come the men faces hidden from the lightAll through the shadows they come and they goWith only one thing in commonThey got the fire down below.
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You can’t be all Mexican. It’s like being all mongrel.
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You are the oveja negre, no? The black sheep?
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Ammu had an elaborate Calcutta wedding. Later, looking back on the day, Ammu realized that the slightest feverish glitter in her bridegroom's eyes had not been love, or even excitement at the prospect of carnal bliss, but approximately eight large pegs of whiskey. Straight. Neat.
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In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.
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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.
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The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.
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The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turn off.
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I am incrementally a pessimist, but I see the international debate that Edward Snowden has engendered, and I think this is exactly where the discussion should be. So, I would say I'm more optimistic than pessimistic.
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We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.
