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.

Miranda Richardson

• Film
• Theatre
• Lucky
• Phrases
• Versatility

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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.

  

  Jack Black
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• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
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• I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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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.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Home
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• Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

  

  Walker Percy
  • Past
  • Grief
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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.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Sometimes
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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.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Me
  • Never
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• I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • 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.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
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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.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • World
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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.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
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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.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • May
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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.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Achieve
  • Clear
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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.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
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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.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• Soon she’ll start yelling, I thought, soon she’ll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

  

  Elena Ferrante
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  • Church
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• I have to make little movies. I have to sit and film.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Film
  • Movies
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• I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Film

• 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.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Film
  • Theatre
  • Lucky