Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes

I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

Miranda Richardson

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• On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • World
  • Dream

• We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Greed
  • Generosity
  • Goodness

• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

  Ziad Doueiri
  • Work
  • Music
  • Real

• No matter where you are on the political spectrum, libraries make sense. It's such a small investment. Every dollar supporting a library system returns five dollars to the community.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Political
  • Small
  • Community

• The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Cold
  • Mud

• Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

  

  Ice T
  • Value
  • Looking
  • Shock

• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Find

• 'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Character
  • Amazing

• I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Different
  • Money
  • Experience

• I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Book
  • Smile

• But anybody who steps into the lane beside you is the biggest competition because they made it to the finals.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • You
  • Competition
  • Lane

• As I was telling my husb- As I was telling President Bush.

  

  Condoleezza Rice

• If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • Time
  • Good

• I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.

  

  Dick York
  • Summer

• There is something, yeah, I mean traditionally it's more fun to play bad guys than it is good guys and when you're playing a bad guy, yeah, the fun in it is to see how scary you can be, how horrible you can be. And it's surprising what you come up with.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Military

• Going to the cinema or a meal can be difficult, with people asking for pictures or autographs.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • People

• I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Work
  • Success

• And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.

  

  Jeremy Irons
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Humor and pathos, tears and laughter are, in the highest expression of human character and achievement, inseparable.

  

  James Thurber
  • Character
  • Tears
  • Achievement

• The way I heard about The American Giving Awards was from the people that I work with. My publicist and I had a conversation a while back about wanting to really get involved more and more. We've been working with the National Council for Adoption with the children's home that I was adopted from called Holston Home.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • People
  • Work
  • Children

• I certainly hope I'm not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Time
  • Hope
  • Star

• I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • People
  • Character
  • Desire