Andrea Riseborough Quotes
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
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In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.
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When you go see a good DJ, you'll know it, man - you'll know it in your bones. Between the guy who's phoning it in and the guy who's obsessively working it to give you the best show of his life.
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If you start trying to figure out yourself from the image everyone has of you, you run into a dead end.
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
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I travelled around small-town India a lot for a job from 2010-2012, and I was impressed by the energy I encountered in these places.
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I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an incurable, disturbing venue of bad speed and inadequate line. I just want to go out and not feel like I'm putting a Rubik's Cube with a flimsy piece of rope.
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I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.
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He might be my boyfriend. He might not be my boyfriend.
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I don't know what you could say about a day in which you have seen four beautiful sunsets.
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The moral is obvious it is that great armaments lead inevitably to war.
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I always wanted to be a band singer, and of course it was the total end of the big band, but I got the last job. It was a very lucky break.
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I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
