Miranda Otto Quotes

I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

Miranda Otto

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• My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Drawing
  • Library
  • Walls

• People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Small
  • Friendship
  • Silly

• I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Earth

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  

  Francesca da Rimini
  • World
  • Hell
  • Suspect

• I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Want
  • You
  • Living

• 'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

  

  Victor Salva
  • Summer
  • Kid
  • Point

• If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Years
  • Movies
  • Two

• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Become
  • Task

• It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.

  

  Flume
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Moments

• Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Movie
  • Course
  • Constant

• I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Write

• A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
  • Long
  • Why

• When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Bores

• I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Care
  • Thought
  • Legacy

• I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Space

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Good
  • Important
  • Practice

• I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.

  

  Jiah Khan
  • Romantic

• When the Hollywood thing happened, I thought at some point I'd get to the front of the queue: 'Yes, hello, I'd like to play that role.' But you don't. You just join a different queue.

  

  Olivia Williams
  • Different
  • Play
  • Thought

• Design, whether it's on your body or in your home, is the same thing. It's mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns - elements that you wouldn't often put together in an interesting way.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Different
  • Home
  • Together

• I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Women
  • Support
  • Myself

• Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.

  

  Bennett Miller
  • Up
  • Rock
  • Mountain

• I hate being pigeon-holed into anything. To me, the best thing is when the next job comes and is completely different to the one that I just had.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Different
  • Things
  • Pigeons