Andrea Riseborough Quotes
Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the filter is becoming very thin and very porous. The ratings race for TV and websites is incredibly fierce, and one of the ways of getting people to watch is through graphic violent images.
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The partner that you have is supposed to make you a better person, and when you're happy, you're a better person.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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No action is without its side effects.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
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Keyless entry in a car is something that we're used to. Somehow, the home has been very resistant to this. Some of it has to do with security, but today we know that technology, when things are invisible, is actually safer than physical artifacts.
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Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.
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Take pride in exactly what it is you do and remember it's okay to fail as long as you don't give up.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I was a big shot in high school - big into social events and at the dramatic society - and I always had trouble in school. Not because I was a dummy, but I was always busy being the Jackson Heights clown.
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Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.
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I feel very privileged to have reached so many kids because a life without stories, without the power of books, would be a very grey world, it's good to add colour.
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I'm happy unless I'm not happy. And I think this is the thing with grief, there is no rhyme or reason to it and it's been completely different to how I thought it was going to be.
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The stereotypes attached to Bollywood were that it's a big, bad world or that it's a dirty world.
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Sometimes you need to break away from something in order to know how much you need or want it.
