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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Theatre is a bastard form. I'm always proud of that. That's what makes it taste of life.
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Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
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We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
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Just proportionately, statistically, one in three women are going to have an abortion. They're not all going to feel guilty.
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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.
