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Andrea Riseborough Quotes

Sexual inappropriacy in my industry? Absolutely. Almost every week.

Andrea Riseborough

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: November 20, 1981

Topics

Week Industry Almost Absolutely

My central strength as an actor is the fact that I'm 6 foot 3. A certain power emanates from my size, juxtaposed with the fact that I try to find an element of sensitivity in every character I play. People enjoy seeing that because it goes against what we're led to expect as far as the way men are supposed to be - macho and all that.

Strength Character Power Men People

Character is character and voice is voice, which translates nicely from writing novels to writing TV. But the process is different. You have a writer's room, people pitch you jokes and you collaborate.

Jennifer Weiner

Character People Writing Voice You

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

Me Interesting Career Difficult Most

I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need.

Family People Suffering Society Help

The contribution of West African languages to Ebonics is absolutely infinitesimal. What it actually is is a very interesting hybrid of regional dialects of Great Britain that slaves in America were exposed to because they often worked alongside the indentured servants who spoke those dialects that we often learn about in school.

Great School Learn Interesting West

I love any event in the United States because I treat it like it's my home, my house. And I'm going to protect it.

Love Home Treat House Protect Going

I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.

Good Speak Better Stuff Accents

Modeling wasn't necessarily what I was into. It's something that you're genetically qualified to do.

You Modeling Genetically Something

Then there's the story of ill-fated love. It's universal.

Love Story Universal Then

People buy box sets, and they sit for a whole weekend with a computer on their lap in bed, and they watch two seasons back-to-back of a show. They are invested in the person within that arc or the dynamics of those people - the relationships - and it doesn't matter to them if they're watching it on an iPhone or a cinema screen.

People Weekend Seasons Cinema Person

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

Art You Fall Need Master Existence

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way.

Life Small Story Deep Kind Way

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