Andrea Riseborough Quotes
'Venus,' which is a Roger Michell film - my first scene was with Peter O'Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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I believe that Obamacare is bad for America.
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I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.
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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
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The idea of writer as sage is pretty much dead today. I would certainly feel very uncomfortable in the role.
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It takes obstacles to learn, grow, be better.
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The cosmology of the ancient world was telling you about the nature of life here and now. Genesis is not about the origins of life. There were many other creation stories current in Israel at that time and no one was required to believe in that one.
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A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.
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What life means to me is to put the content of Shelley into the form of Zola. The proletarian writer is a writer with a purpose; he thinks no more of 'art for art's sake' than a man on a sinking ship thinks of painting a beautiful picture in the cabin; he thinks of getting ashore - and then there will be time enough for art.
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I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.
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The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
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I want all of you to know that I intend to beat this disease. And further, I intend to ride again as a professional cyclist.
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What I have realized is I cannot guarantee the absence of discrimination or hatred or prejudice, but I can guarantee the presence of justice.
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Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
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'Venus,' which is a Roger Michell film - my first scene was with Peter O'Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.
