Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Basically, when I went to school in Sri Lanka from age five onward, the classes there were sometimes sorted into a hierarchy of your skin tone. So the fairer-skinned kids sat at the front row, and the darker-skinned kids sat at the back by the poor ones who played out in the street all day long.
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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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You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.
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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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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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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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LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
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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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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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My philosophy is to not be scared of anyone. If I play well, great; if I don't, I learn from the match and move on.
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There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
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Anything you're interested in the world - whether it be Charlie Rose or JetBlue or a public figure or your local coffee shop - they're on Twitter and broadcasting what is interesting to them.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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All dignified people in the world, whether Arabs or Muslims or others with dignity, are very proud of the speech made by president Bashar al-Assad a few days ago here in Damascus. For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here.
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Our press is the most disgusting in the world.
