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
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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

• If you think of any past artist, there was something that they looked at that inspired them to make their most famous pieces, whether it be the 'Mona Lisa' or 'Venus Rising.'

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Past
  • Famous
  • Inspired

• All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Country

• I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1969, in a time and place where no one was saying, 'Look how far we've come,' because we hadn't come very far, to say the least. Although Jackson's population was half white and half black, I didn't have a single black friend or a black neighbor or even a black person in my school.

  

  Kathryn Stockett
  • Time
  • School
  • Black

• There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

  

  Doug Larson
  • Children

• I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Work
  • Walk
  • Work Hard

• 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