Andrea Riseborough Quotes

I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?

Andrea Riseborough

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• When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Impossible
  • Task

• I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • God
  • Bad
  • Earth

• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • High
  • Energy
  • Diet

• There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Independent
  • Democrat

• While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Up
  • Know
  • Easy

• I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Myself
  • Performance
  • Push

• There is no question that knowing someone in the business will get you in the door. But it is your skill that will keep you in the room.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Business
  • Question
  • Door

• The trouble with records is that they're too short.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Trouble
  • Records
  • Short

• In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Sometimes
  • Politics
  • Promise

• I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Value
  • Face
  • Answers

• Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Corrupt

• Self-justification is a treacherous servant.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Servant
  • Treacherous

• I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • Work
  • Me
  • Ninja

• The March of Dimes

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • March

• My Soul gave me good counsel, teaching me that the lamp which I carry does not belong to me, and the song that I sing was not generated from within me. Even if I walk with light, I am not the light; and if I am a taut-stringed lute, I am not the lute player.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Song

• He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Horse

• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I do not need.

  

  Auguste Rodin

• Revolution is everywhere, in everything. There is no final revolution, no final number.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Revolution
  • Number
  • Final

• Singers like her, Patti, Tina Turner, I revere them when I'm in their presence.

  

  Deborah Cox

• I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

  

  Stanley Hauerwas
  • Delight
  • Controversy
  • Theologian

• I'm not even sure that any of us are ever ready for anything. We can be ripe, or over-ready, but what is that moment when we're actually ready?

  

  Andrea Riseborough