Andrea Arnold Quotes
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I really like 'Roar' and 'Dark Horse.' 'Dark Horse' I really like, and I feel I would sing that in the bathroom; I would buy that album, and I think Katy Perry's amazing!
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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Fuel conservation is as important as fuel production.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Our planet's lands and oceans are already stretched to meet the demands of 7 billion people. The human population continues to grow. The search for sustainable solutions is an economic and a moral imperative if we are to create the future we want.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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A movie is a mass consumption product. I have got no delusions about being niche. I don't want to be niche. Though in the earlier part of my career I was into niche cinema, doing independent films - and I do have a revolutionary bent of mind - but you cannot make a change from outside; you have to be a part of it.
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I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
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And looks commercing with the skies,Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.
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The corporate system dictates what gets made, and the movies are so bad because of the economic structure of Hollywood. The big business takeover of Hollywood is at fault rather than American storytellers - it's what keeps textured movies from getting made.
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I love to listen to people talk, especially when they're being really honest and they're not trying to sound any particular way.
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I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.
