Andrea Riseborough Quotes
Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.
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People are really paying attention to the comic-book genre, and there's a lot of time and attention being invested in these projects with a wonderful sense of quality control.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I would kiss you, had I the courage.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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To each his own, but I just think that we women have a certain body type. As Indian women, we have a beautiful body type. And I believe in the celebration of curves. Whether it's Salma Hayek, Penelope Cruz, Zeenat Aman or Shilpa Shetty, they are very curvaceous and beautiful. I don't know why anyone would want to fight that.
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I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.
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My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.
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I love dishes that feature the various shades of a single colour, making you stop to check what's in there.
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When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
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Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.
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I interpret contemporary human social behavior to comprise hypertrophic outgrowths of the simpler features of human nature joined together into an irregular mosaic.
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Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
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Both my wife and I have a lot of compassion for animals in general.
Biz Stone -
The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.
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Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.
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Make DV movies so you can learn how to make films, but don't try to distribute them until they are fantastic.
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Puberty is an extremely traumatic process even if you don't realize it. It kind of lives with you for like 10 years.
