Andrea Riseborough Quotes
Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.
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I had no student friends to talk to about literature. My tutor was a really nice man, very charming - but he had no literary judgment.
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What I do for a living is listen.
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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I really do feel very lucky. I've had my kids and my relationships. I've set my life down - I'm in my house, and I'm alone with my children - and I'm at peace, and that's a really nice feeling. All I really want in my life is to maintain that.
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I struggled in school. Math and science were difficult for me. But I can watch 10 guys play, and I can tell you what everybody did. It might be a curse because when you see everything, sometimes you don't let your kids play.
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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
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The nature of things is dharma.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
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In my opinion it's not about gay or straight or bi, we're attracted to spirits, whatever body they're in. There are other reasons too, but that's how I see it.
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We do long-form-style improv. Our focus was characters and telling a long arc story over about an hour and a half. It was closer to a one-act play than one-off sketches.
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
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One day he said: For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it s just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me.
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Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
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He watched her. He took his time.Had he known that he was about to enter a tunnel whose only egress was his own annihilation, would he have turned away?Perhaps.Perhaps not.Who can tell?
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I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
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It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.
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History is hereditary only in this way: we, all of us, inherit everything, and then we choose what to cherish, what to disavow, and what to do next, which is why it's worth trying to know where things come from.
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I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
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Tracey Emin's 'Strangeland' made me see that everything I have to be creative is inside of myself.
