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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She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.
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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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Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.
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Everything I saw in Japan was a story to me.
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When we are placed in a set of circumstances where we have to take initiative and be creative, some of us find it hard to transition. Those people have been trained not to think but to obey orders. They are slaves to the training, unconsciously pledging allegiance to the average. Mentally they recite from the manual of mediocrity.
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Romance is one of the sacred temples that dot the landscape of life.
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith; they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.
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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.
