Miranda Otto Quotes

I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

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• It seems to me that trying to live without friends is like milking a bear to get cream for your morning coffee. It is a whole lot of trouble, and then not worth much after you get it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Friends

• I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Nice

• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Small
  • Movies

• I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Long
  • City
  • Grandmother

• Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Help
  • Heaven

• High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.

  

  Major Owens
  • High
  • Eating
  • Lead

• In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • World
  • English

• Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Sometimes, when I have a lot of ideas and I want to do a lot of things, or when I'm traveling, I lose energy and I can't do as many things as I want. So I have to plan days when I'm not doing anything. I find that a bit boring, but it's necessary.

  

  Bjork
  • Energy

• What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Character
  • City

• You can't value others until you value yourself.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Value

• It's up to comedians to shine the light on what's wrong in the world, and we don't want things swept under the rug.

  

  Jeff Ross
  • Up
  • World
  • Light

• I think the radio is kind of cool, because you're really free to do whatever you want, because you can go into another world. Whereas in TV, you have to make that world.

  

  Bret McKenzie
  • World
  • Free
  • Cool

• Strong communities are built around local, real food. Food we trust to nourish our bodies, the farmer and planet.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Real
  • Strong
  • Food

• I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Dance

• Some people like very predictable melodies, and others prefer the less likely notes.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • People

• The easier question might be, 'What isn't Alibaba?' The company is only 15 years old, but it has gotten so big over that timeframe that it basically touches every single part of the Chinese economy. I think the simplest comparison to draw is that it is like eBay and Amazon combined.

  

  Kayla Tausche
  • Question
  • Single
  • Chinese

• The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Nature
  • Achievement

• A lot of us got into the industry because of 'Star Wars,' and we all have this love of the original source material.

  

  John Knoll
  • Star

• In time you may discover everything that can be discovered, and still your progress will only be progress away from humanity. The distance between you and them can one day become so great that your joyous cry over some new gain could be answered by an universal shriek of horror.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Humanity
  • Distance
  • Discover

• So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • Listening
  • Limits
  • Wondering

• I have an almost complete disregard of precedent, and a faith in the possibility of something better. It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I go for anything new that might improve the past.

  

  Clara Barton
  • Done
  • Past
  • Faith

• And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life.

  

  Minoru Yamasaki
  • Thinking
  • Strong
  • Environment

• I like working intensely, then going away and thinking about it, working out why it didn't work and then coming back to it. It makes the work richer, I think.

  

  Miranda Otto
  • Thinking
  • Going
  • Coming