Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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I'm not angry, I'm not an angry person, but I do sometimes like playing with the perception of anger, as in pretending that I'm more angry than I actually am, and sometimes it works quite well.
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You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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It's not so much religion per se, it's false certainty that worries me, and religion just has more than its fair share of false certainty or dogmatism. I'm really concerned when I see people pretending to know things they clearly cannot know.
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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
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I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
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A guy may wear a suit and have a high-paying job and appear very mature, but essentially, he's a 14-year-old boy.
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Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.
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I don't have goals when writing books, apart from getting to the end. I have rather vague ideas about how I want things to feel, I'm big on ambience. I have a title, a beginning and a probable ending and go from there.
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I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.
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I always love to learn new things. That's the reason I like being an actor.
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The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.
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The reason we need books like these is that the Gospels cannot simply be taken at face value as giving us historically reliable accounts of the things Jesus said and did.
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God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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My phrase has always been that I am looking for the versatility of theatre in film. I think I have been quite lucky in that so far.
