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

  

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

  

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• I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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.

  

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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
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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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
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• Quakers are terrific.

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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• '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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• 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.

  

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

  

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• After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

  

  Arthur Erickson
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• The Keystone XL project has built strong safety measures into its design with the newest technology. Additionally, 80 percent of the new Canadian oil sands are being developed 'in situ,' meaning, it has a similar carbon footprint and emissions as conventional oil wells.

  

  John Hoeven
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• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• 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