Miranda Raison Quotes

I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.

Miranda Raison

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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.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • People
  • Kids
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Great
  • Day

• 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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • People
  • Remember
  • Guy

• You know, the polls show that 70 percent of the people are for stem-cell research.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Know
  • Research

• 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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Vision
  • Internet

• 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.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• 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.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Strong
  • Born

• Everybody has a Bill Murray story. He just punishes people for reasons they can't figure out.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Story
  • Just

• 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.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• 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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Religious
  • Differences

• 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.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • World
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Country
  • Government

• It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• Some of my legal colleagues are the most creative people I know!

  

  Belinda Johnson
  • People

• 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.

  

  Dave Goldberg
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I've learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively.

  

  Paula McLain
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• For the first three years, when I was writing, I was doing sessions with a whole bunch of different people all the time every day until I met Lindy Robbins, who kind of mentored me. And then, once you find that, all the pieces come together.

  

  Julia Carin Cavazos
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• My favorite type of pet has always been a dog. They're loyal, kind, and offer endless affection. My friend Eric says, 'The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.' Funny thought.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • People
  • Funny
  • Friend

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• I have hesitation making any kind of decision, really in my life. I'm really slow at it.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Life
  • Decision

• I think if you put people in front of some huge temptation where it's possible to grab as much as they can for themselves, almost everyone will. The beauty of commerce is that it mutes that. The chap behind the counter in the corner shop has no interest in short-changing you, because he wants you to come back.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • People
  • Temptation

• Of course, legends can call out whoever they want and do as they please, but they can't just show up and get handed matches.

  

  Dolph Ziggler
  • Up

• I've had more fan mail from 'Doctor Who' than anything. People love the show so passionately.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • People
  • Anything
  • Doctor