Miranda Richardson (Miranda Jane Richardson) Quotes
If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I think at first the Flume project really started out as an online thing. I used Facebook and SoundCloud, and I think we got lucky because it felt like a bit of a golden age of those social media platforms. So I managed to create quite a solid fan base online.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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The fact we don't have a lunar base has nothing to do with the technology. It has to do with public commitment and societal support.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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Love is a state of being.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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You begin to take on the mentality of your coach. If he feels so confident, then I feel confident.
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Memory is a way of telling you what's important to you.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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I have not changed my opinion that the Holocaust is a trauma of European civilization.
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I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends.
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This body made of flesh is subject to death. If it is not washed for a single day, it stinks. We cannot trust the human body.
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As the Obama administration negotiates with the Karzai government and with Pakistan, we may be tempted to make commitments that, in the name of nation-building, restrict our ability to fight terrorists. If we must involve the Afghan government in every night raid, our operations will slow and targets will escape.
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You do need more revenues, and you do need to cut expenses. But you also don't want to go in a direction whereby increasing taxes creates a reticence to create new jobs. You don't want to increase taxes on work. You don't want to increase taxes on investment and the creation of wealth.
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If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.
