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?
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.
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Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.
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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.
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I have the strange ability to shut things out.
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I am a Democrat. But I am an independent Democrat.
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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.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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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.
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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I was 7 years old, and I challenged everything. I never accepted answers on face value.
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Writing is sacred, other activities are profane, and I don't want them to corrupt my writing.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.
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I think it's always good when you're able to, as an actor, allow your work to be some kind of a conduit for social discourse, and an examination of where we are, as a society.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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The best experience that we have on Earth is the fact that we have scientific stations, weathering over stations down in the Antarctic for almost the entire 20th century to learn how to exist in exceedingly hazardous conditions; and the Moon is far more hazardous than Antarctica. At least they have water there.
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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Next time you have a bad day, remember that it is amazing that you are alive at all, much less a member of a self-aware species living at the height of human technological progress.
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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?
