Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
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Training for a fight is never easy, regardless of the opponent.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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I am pleased to tell you that he is finally getting some rest and is regaining his appetite as well.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making commercials?' I said, if I do that, I want it to be funny.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
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The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.
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People used to throw rocks at me for my clothes, now they wanna know where I buy them.
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Discipleship is based solely on devotion to Jesus Christ, not on following after a particular belief or doctrine.
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When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
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The secret to it all is just to enjoy what you're doing. This is not working at the coal face, this is not sweeping behind a restaurant. It's work, but it's not work. It gives me a different type of energy. I'm grateful for that.
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It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you.
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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
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I guess I'd love to be surprised by something I had never thought of.
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I was worried people would laugh at me when I started to talk the language, but they were just pleasantly surprised that I could. The sense of humour here is great – once I could have a giggle, I settled down.
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I had long since realized that each of us organizes memory as it suits him, I'm still surprised when I do it myself. But it surprised me that one could go so far as to give the facts an arrangement that went against one's own interests.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
