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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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
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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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I tend to sort of over-accessorize, but to feel empowered, I strip it all down and become minimal so that it's almost counterintuitive.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
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Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.
