Andrea Riseborough Quotes
I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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Being on 'The Vampire Diaries' feels almost like a game you play when you're a kid. When I was a kid, I used to have to take the garbage out at night on Wednesdays. I lived out in the country. I'd take the garbage out, and I used to pretend that I was the only person in the whole world, except for one other person, and he was looking for me.
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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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If you don't find time to meditate and get all that negative out, and if you don't have the right people being positive around you, this is a very scary job to have if you don't learn how to control your fear.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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There was an ingredient used in perfumes and remedies in the Middle Ages called 'momie' that is certainly one of the most fascinating I've come across.
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I am feeling very well here and want to achieve much more with BVB and win titles. I am here and nowhere else: not at Arsenal, not at Barcelona, and not on the moon.
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I'm not too afraid of much but I do fear not being able to race some day. I can imagine it would be quite sad.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Barton Fink got written very quickly, in about three weeks. I don't know what that means.
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I'm based in L.A., mainly. I'm pretty much there a lot of the time doing work.
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I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
