Andrea Riseborough Quotes

You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

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• By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • World
  • India
  • China

• I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

  

  Yash Chopra
  • Work
  • Great
  • Passion

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Voice

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• With brain and body, it's great if you have a connection between the two, but when separated, that leads to a lot of conflict.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Great
  • Brain
  • Connection

• In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Man
  • Mirror

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• I basically grew up in the backwoods.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Grew
  • Basically

• It's hard to notice things without people noticing me and that takes some getting used to.

  

  Edie Falco
  • People
  • Me
  • Without

• America's best buy is a telephone call to the right man.

  

  Ilka Chase
  • America
  • Man
  • Best

• I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Worry
  • Treat

• A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • Country
  • Never
  • Wise

• We don't have a culture of realistic acting in India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Culture
  • Acting
  • India

• I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Remember
  • Guy
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• There was a woman in Elizabeth I's court that happened to have the same family name as me.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Family
  • Woman
  • Same

• A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • American
  • Question
  • Idea

• Every time I play with someone, not just a new person, but someone I've been with all along, that's where I really learn.

  

  Bill Frisell

• Hillary Clinton really wants to be president. She wanted to be president in '08. She's hardly left the spotlight.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Want
  • President
  • Wanted

• I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Children
  • Think

• In 1828 we raised the duties, on an average, to nearly fifty per cent, when the debt was on the eve of being discharged, and thereby flooded the country with a revenue, when discharged, which could not be absorbed by the most lavish expenditures.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • Country

• You know those bumpers in the two lanes when you go bowling? I go out there with two of them, metaphorically, every day.

  

  Andrea Riseborough