Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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I don't want three million people digesting my private life over their cornflakes.
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North Korea is a problem, not only because of its fast advancing nuclear and missile program but also because of the sorry state of the country’s economy and its abysmal human rights record. It is a problem for us outsiders, but it is an even greater problem for the North Korean people themselves. As people are fond of saying in such situations that "something has to be done." But what exactly?
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If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.
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Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.
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I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.
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Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
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I just couldn't sit through Harold and Maude one more time, ... Diane has really old tastes for a woman her age.
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We cannot rely on God's promises without obeying his commandments.
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Free speech and the ability to tolerate offense are the hallmarks of a free and open society.
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Ugarte: You despise me, don't you? Rick Blaine: If I gave you any thought I probably would.
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I do warm-up but it’s not very technical. Before an hour before every show we always put on some music that everybody in the band likes. We have maybe a beer or a glass of wine and I just try to sing along to those songs that we play just to get my voice warmed up. I practice to sing as much as possible before going on stage.
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A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.
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The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
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The trajectory of my writing has moved further and further away from autobiography. My first stories in Confessions of a Falling Woman worked familiar territory - places I had lived, people I knew, my life as an actor in New York - and many were prompted by or grounded in personal experience.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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London keeps me grounded. We don't get praised every time we open our gobs there.
