Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
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My dream role is Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Everything I want to do in my life, I want to be at the top.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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Life is precious and time is a key element. Let's make every moment count and help those who have a greater need than our own.
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It's nice to look good, but the most important thing is to be you.
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I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.
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Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.
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If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
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Pop music has always been about the mainstream and what appeals to the public.
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There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.
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Never before had I been offered a contract and advance before a word had been written... I went home and began writing 'Julie of the Wolves.'
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My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.
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I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.
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As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.
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There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.
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We need to dream big dreams, propose grandoise means if we are to recapture the excitement, the vibrancy, and pride we once had.
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I want to do what I like and that's play football.
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The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit.
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She moved nearer, leaned her shoulder against me — and we were one, and something flowed from her into me, and I knew: this is how it must be. I knew it with every nerve, and every hair, every heartbeat, so sweet it verged on pain. And what joy to submit to this 'must'. A piece of iron must feel such joy as it submits to the precise, inevitable law that draws it to a magnet. Or a stone, thrown up, hesitating a moment, then plunging headlong back to earth. Or a man, after the final agony, taking a last deep breath — and dying.
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It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.
