Andrea Arnold Quotes
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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I got thrust into some great things when I was really young.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I think that it is important for people to understand that whether a good-guy or a bad-guy wins a case is less important than what the law is that the case results in.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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Remember the diner in 'Happy Days?' I do want to do a show like that. But an updated version.
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Through affliction hath His light shone and His praise been bright unceasingly: this hath been His method through past ages and bygone times.
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The Internet is a gift to fashion.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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We can't reliably distinguish true memories from false memories.
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Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.
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Most historians and other writers of what we now consider 'primary sources' simply didn't think about women and their contribution to society. They took it for granted, except when that contribution or its lack directly affected men.
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'Was the cow crossed?''No, your worship, it was an open cow.'
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We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary.
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I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
