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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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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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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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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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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I think what happened during the Great Depression was that African Americans understood that Republicans championed citizenship and voting rights but they became impatient for economic emancipation.
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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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Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.
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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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In contrast to 50 years ago, few licensed humanists today embrace any view of the humanities that could in fact justify making them the centerpiece of a college curriculum.
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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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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.
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I loved experiencing city life in New York.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.
