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I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.

Andrea Arnold

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Andrea Arnold
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 5
Actor
Film Director
Filmmaker
Screenwriter
Television Presenter
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