Andrea Arnold Quotes
People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.
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I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
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I had a very modest upbringing.
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Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
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Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.
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Deciding to write a novel about something - as opposed to finding you are writing a novel around something - sounds to me like a good evocation of writer's block.
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Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.
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He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.
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People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work.
