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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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!'

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• I basically grew up in the backwoods.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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

  

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• Our first iteration of driverless cars kind of drove like trolleys on a track. This uncanny notion threw people off.

  

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• Sometimes you can take those dramatic roles and maybe interject a little humor into them, and I think the reverse also works.

  

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• People have been able to see that as cheeky and as flirty as I am, I am not the dreadful slapper that the press used to portray me as. But it will probably all turn around and people will hate me again in a couple of years.

  

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• People who have gone, are still here, in us. Places we came from, are carried to the places we go.

  

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• 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