Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes

It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

Miranda Richardson

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• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • High
  • Muse
  • Conqueror

• I debated free trade in college. I came out as a free trader. I'm a free markets guy. I'm an Adam Smith guy.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • Guy
  • Free
  • College

• Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Know

• 'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Music
  • Power

• The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Good
  • Space
  • Fall

• My kids are the future of the Mayweather family and of the Mayweather brand. I feel our family is stronger if we stay together.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Together

• When I was a kid, 'Blade Runner' was my favorite movie. I remember seeing that when I was a little boy with my dad.

  

  Tahmoh Penikett
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Dad

• I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Politics
  • Impact
  • Governments

• I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Life
  • Growing
  • Bored

• You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• Nashville is a lot like my hometown. You learn so quickly once someone hears something about you or sees something, everybody talks about it at dinner. They know your business, so people tend to be more private and not to throw themselves into everyone's faces.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • People
  • Business
  • Dinner

• I think 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy has a very satisfying ending, and there's not really that deep of a mythological construct.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Think
  • Deep
  • Ending

• The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Nature
  • Simple

• 'And if it's proud to have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts,' Miss Jenny struck in, flushed, 'she is proud.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Heart
  • She
  • Proud

• With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Mind
  • Judge

• I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Real

• Each successive period of progress is a period more humane and spiritual. The only logical conclusion is that all is Mind and its manifestation, from the rolling of worlds, in the most subtle ether, to a potato-patch.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • Mind
  • Spiritual
  • Progress

• I guess there might come a point when I will want to live an anonymous life. I'm only at the start of my career, so I'm sure that moment will come, but I know how blessed I am to have this platform on which to speak and influence.

  

  Kimbra Lee Johnson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Career

• I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!

  

  Joanna Trollope
  • Done
  • Book
  • Sorry

• Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

  

  George Carlin
  • Driving

• Books are not like people. Books are safe.

  

  Kathryn Erskine
  • People
  • Books
  • Safe

• There are cliques in Bollywood, and people stick together, but I have always tried to stick to my work. As an industry, Bollywood is very competitive, and I'm very competitive as a person, but I've never been a part of any clique, and I've always worked with all actors and directors, all camps.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• It's a wonderful profession, and it opens lots of doors, and I think it's quite right that people can accuse actors and actresses of being dilettante, but you learn on every job, whatever it is, the process moves you on in some way, and yeah, I want to expand my knowledge of our existence, I suppose.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • People
  • Actors
  • Existence