Andrea Riseborough Quotes
I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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My wife and I are very blessed. I am very grateful for the life that we lead.
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I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I'm prouder of.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.
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Everything that I do in my life is geared towards my kids and their survival and giving them the best education that I can possibly give them and the best home that I can possibly give them.
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Becoming a mother was the single defining event of my life. It felt like the whole world shifted.
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[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
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You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.
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People’s stories are the most personal thing they have, and paying attention to those stories is just about the most important thing you can do for them.
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I've played a mother before, but it's always been a very young child, which is closer to what I can imagine my own life looking like.
