Andrea Riseborough Quotes
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Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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I'm very happy with the choices I've been making and the people I've been working with. I hope I can continue along this path.
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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had. They weren't able to guide me towards particular books, but they encouraged me to read, which I did, randomly and compulsively.
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My dreams came true while wearing the opening look from the spring/summer 2010 Dior ready-to-wear collection. I will never forget how special I felt opening John Galliano's show, like I was living a dream.
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Random things are luxurious to people. It's personal.
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I was working my first adult job, a quasi journalistic job, writing content for a website. In the offices, we had banks of TVs, papers, a constant media stream, which was unusual for 2001.
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Anything you don’t understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
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Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is :-)
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Among both the Northern and Eastern Hamites are to be found some of the most beautiful types of humanity.
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Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.
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Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
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That's me. I can be me a bit at home, but I'm kind of like a square peg in a round hole.
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I was well acquainted with the Calcutta literary circle since I was 17, when I lived in Bangladesh and published and edited a little magazine called 'Sejuti,' for which young poets from both Bengals wrote. If you look at my life, there is no question of using anyone for anything. I have only got banned, blacklisted and banished.
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I temporarily became a surgeon for 'Memory of Love'. I spent two weeks in an operating theatre, watching amputations, and I loved it.
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My one piece of advice to anyone trying to do acting - this would just be to keep going. It sounds really basic, but I went to 121 auditions my first year in L.A. That is no exaggeration, because I keep lists - I know it's a little psychotic - of every audition that I have ever
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I'm very pragmatic.
