Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.
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Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.
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I come with bad genetics, personally.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.
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Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.
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I love him (Josh Homme) too much, and you can't hurt someone that you love that much ... unless you're family.
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I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
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The facts will eventually test all our theories, and they form, after all, the only impartial jury to which we can appeal.
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It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.
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Much of the magical effect that poetry gives of rendering everything it touches pellucid comes from the necessity of compression that it imposes. The impossibility of pausing in poetry as long as may be needed to make sense clear causes many a set of words actually deficient in linguistic workmanship to pass for an eloquent brevity.
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The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.
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Over the centuries, and even today, the Bible and Christian theology have helped justify the Crusades, slavery, violence against gays, and the murder of doctors who perform abortions. The words themselves are latent, inert, harmless - until they aren't.
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As a hopeless romantic, I'm drawn to stories of improbable beginnings.
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I have never quite grasped the worry about the power of the press. After all, it speaks with a thousand voices, in constant dissonance.
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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
