Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
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The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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My generation were all careerists.
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Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.
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People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
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Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.
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But we will say something else. That for far too long in this country, people who can work, people who are able to work, and people who choose not to work: you cannot go on claiming welfare like you are now.
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People used to call me names, so my mom had this beautiful African lady come talk to me.
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What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way of looking at the world and learning.
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I'm not a method actor; I hope you know that!
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I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.
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The UFC has been nothing but great to me. I can't complain; they give me what I want.
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The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
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It costs so much to promote something these days that almost always safety is the preferred option, reference back to things which have been successful in the past. Also, people are simply not given the time to develop and find themselves and their audience as we were.
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'Party Down' is the most fun I've ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it's very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It's way, way, way too short.
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At the core of my work there is this eternal back-and-forth between being confined to one's own individuality and that longing to be part of the other, the outside world: the impossibility of ever being able to get beneath another person's skin.
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We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.
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Here's what management is about: Pick good people and set the right priorities.
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She's not even referred to until her husband's death in 1903. And even then it's only as 'Mrs. William Dewey.
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Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go.
