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?
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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 honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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The most cowardly thing in the world is blaming mistakes upon the umpires. Too many managers strut around on the field trying to manage the umpires instead of their teams.
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It is so unexpected, it goes beyond my wildest dreams. Sometimes I just sit back and think. 'Oh my God, I'm in the movies!' It still hasn't sunk in.
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Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian.
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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?
