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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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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You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.
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Like dancers with choreography or actors with scripts, jazz singers could take material that was known, even loved, then risk interpreting and revising it. They could conceal even as they revealed themselves. Inflection, timing and tonality were their language, at least as much as words.
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Der Historiker ist ein rückwärtsgekehrter Prophet.
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What I like in comedies are really two things: stories that are character-driven and stories that are rooted in authenticity.
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They say a tie is like kissing your sister. I guess that is better than kissing your brother.
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I like the cold; I don't have problem with cold, and I don't have problem with rain either, as long as people are smiling. You know, early in my career, I used to wonder about this fan frenzy, but now I realize that there is genuine love, respect and affection, which makes me very proud to be an actor.
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Feminism was a dirty word for a while.
