Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
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My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
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The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.
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All Die Antwoord music, on a weird level, is like relationship music.
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Every time I start a film I feel like I'm starting the first time, ever.
