Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes

I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

Miranda Richardson

• Design
• Personality
• Eccentric
• Terrific
• Belgians

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• Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.

  

  Orlando Jones
  • Me
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  • Difference

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
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• Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Heart
  • Home
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• I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

  

  R. L. Stine
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• Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success.

  

  Mae West
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• Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.

  

  Victor Papanek
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• To get scared is something not in my personality.

  

  Ram Kapoor
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• I'm restless. I'm all the time here and there and trying to get myself busy and creative. It's something that's part of my personality since I was a kid.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Time
  • Trying
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• There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• The year the bus drivers went on strike in Pittsburgh, I was twenty-three and living on the edge of the city in a neighborhood that was on the verge of becoming a ghetto. I had just been fired from a good job as a cartographer in a design studio where I had worked for about four months.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Good
  • Job
  • City

• I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Proud
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  • Projects

• Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

  

  Yves Behar
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Design

• Quakers are terrific.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Terrific
  • Quakers

• Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• Options allow a woman to tailor her role to her personality, but if a man expects to provide well, he expects to wear a suit, not to wear what suits him.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Personality

• 'You can't be a successful Dictator and design women's underclothing.'No, sir.'One or the other. Not both.'Precisely, sir.'

  

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  • Design

• Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Up
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• I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • Design

• The mathematics of quantum mechanics very accurately describes how our universe works.

  

  Antony Garrett Lisi
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• There really is a hunger and a demand for something different in higher education.

  

  Jerry Falwell, Jr.
  • Different
  • Education

• I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • People
  • World
  • Book

• Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Knowledge
  • Figures
  • Breath

• There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Up
  • Rest

• I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Design
  • Personality
  • Eccentric