Miranda Raison Quotes
I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.
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You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
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When I first came to the Bay area, I worked in Silicon Valley in the early to mid-'90s, and I think what mattered then was our ability as designers to create a vision around people's ideas.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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In countries where there are no racial differences or no religious differences, people find other reasons to set aside one certain group of people and generally spit in their direction.
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I've never made a penny being a doctor, so that makes it not a job. My sense of a doctor is that one is a presence caring for health. So I'm never not a doctor. People call me from all over the world who are hurting, and I care for them. Chatting is what more people want than anything.
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This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.
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It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.
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The one who really captured me and became my absolute favorite was Nat King Cole. He was a genius at what he did. Most people don't realize what a great pianist he was. After listening to him for years, I finally met him, and he was the nicest human being.
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Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!
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My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.
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While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.
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False teachers invite people to come to the Master's table because of what's on it, not because they love the Master.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico.
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I like animals, I really do, but some animals are just meant to be eaten.
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I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.
