Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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Tennyson seems to be the patron saint of the wishy washies, which is perhaps why I admire him so much, not only as a poet, but as a man.
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I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
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Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.
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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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All the great and beneficent operations of Nature are produced by slow and often imperceptible degrees. The work of destruction and devastation only is violent and rapid.
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When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
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I am very excited about the future for Ulta Beauty.
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People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.
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I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
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Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present mother for my kids, instead of one who was emotionally unavailable because she was in so much pain, as my own mother was.
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Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.
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Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.
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The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before reviews appear in the traditional outlets, you can now usually discover - somewhere in the thickets of the Internet - reactions to shows from people who've seen them in previews.
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I've constantly done my best to get the best material I can get with the best directors I can get to direct me.
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Astronomers have so far escaped the extreme specialization that has overtaken physicists. Telescopes are big, but they are not as complicated as accelerators. Observations with a big telescope can be carried out in hours rather than years.
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Our press is the most disgusting in the world.
