Andrea Arnold Quotes
For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.
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I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I don't know if Wimbledon's seen anything like it. I don't know if they will again. But it was just - it was electric. The Aussie crowd, I'm really proud of them, the way they conducted themselves. You know they're great losers, as well.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I think what probably happens when you put two awkward/clunky people together is that their awkward/clunky world seems like a normal world.
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People say it's a Ponzi scheme, it's a bubble. People really don't want to take it seriously. At some point, that narrative will shift to 'virtual currencies are here to stay.'
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.
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I can cry at the drop of a hat. I've always found that easier than laughing in films.
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.
