Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
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I would have to say that I have to concentrate more when I'm doing comedy. There are so many details that make up any character, but developing a character for a dramatic role seems to come more naturally.
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Also at the top of the list was my three day appearance on 'Press Your Luck'. In addition to the intense competition of each of those games, it slowly started to dawn on me in the minutes between tapings that I was winning some serious money.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.
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I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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The hate and scorn showered on us Negro officers by our fellow Americans convinced me that there was no sense in my dying for a world ruled by them. I made up my mind that if I got through this war I would study law and use my time fighting for men who could not strike back.
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The Beatles, they had it all figured out, okay? "I Want to Hold Your Hand." The first single. It's effing brilliant, right?... That's what everybody wants, Nicky. They don't want a twenty-four-hour hump sesh, they don't want to be married to you for a hundred years. They just want to hold your hand.
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The idea of being a professional actor never occurred to anybody, including myself, for a long time.
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How sweet the morning air is! ...How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!
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We're still fighting over the same issue - equal pay.
