Andrea Riseborough Quotes
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I don't think Joe Louis could take the punches today fighting in this era.
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I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.
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When people go through tragic circumstances, it's not that there is no love there, but it's so hard to deal with and sometimes the gap starts to happen.
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You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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If you aren't born here, to be a real New Yorker, you have to bring your talent, be a successful mentor, and support the New Yorkers who made the city by giving back.
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So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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If we had to pose for every single person at the Eat & Greets, we wouldn't get to speak to anyone that's there, and we definitely wouldn't get to serve them food.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.
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All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run.
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God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.
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People want gimmicks. They have to lose 10 pounds by 8:30 tonight.
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It's true that no child is born knowing there's an evil thing. You learn what is ugly.
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There are great characters on television.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.
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I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
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No honest man will argue on every side.
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Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.
