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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Violence against embassies and civilians must be categorically condemned. At the same time, we must attempt to understand why such events occur.
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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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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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I have newspapers coming to me and saying, 'Can we get in on the TARP?'.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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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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Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.
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If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
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As I say, you get labelled. To stop all that, I've got to win things - that's the only way you make your mark.
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I'm very pragmatic.
