Miranda Seymour Quotes

Thrumpton Hall can be thought of as a venerable old lady, ageing gracefully. But I didn't always feel this way. Children want more than anything to be very conventional and very normal, so it was excruciating and, at times, very upsetting to grow up in a house like this.

Miranda Seymour

• Children
• House
• Conventional
• Ageing
• Upsetting
• Excruciating

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• My lesson from history is that if there is a strong moderate centrist party which can lead the country, there is no room for extremists from the right or left.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Country
  • History
  • Strong

• On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • True
  • Die
  • Play

• While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

  

  Sam Wood
  • Support
  • Road
  • Building

• The common misconception is that as an actress you have to learn what you're doing. No, you just have to make the audience think you've learned it.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Think
  • Learn
  • Doing

• We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pipeline for its nuclear ambitions.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Energy
  • Financial
  • Nation

• Even in my first analysis of a depressive psychosis, I was immediately struck by its structural similarity with obsessional neurosis.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • First
  • Analysis
  • Structural

• I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Respect
  • Gifted

• To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Great
  • True

• No one wanted me to be a conscientious objector. My parents certainly didn't want it. My teacher and mentor, Joe Brearley, didn't want it. My friends didn't want it. I was alone.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Alone

• I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'

  

  Candice Millard
  • Hair
  • Moment
  • Library

• I try to eat fruit and be healthy.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Try
  • Healthy
  • Fruit

• It was funny, when I thought of it afterward, how Ruth and Gehrig looked as they stood there. The Babe must have been waiting for me to get the ball up a little so he could get his bat under it.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Running

• Before the sun went down again, she realized, she would be in New York. The thought sent a nervous thrill through her entire body. Her throat was tight, her heart suddenly racing.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Heart
  • She
  • Sun

• I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

  

  Jill McCorkle
  • People
  • Time

• It would be ridiculous for me to say I am unlucky, but, like any other family and any other girl, I've had my ups and downs.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Family
  • Girl

• I wonder if economics has less basic core material than is necessary for fields such as mathematics, physics, or chemistry, say.

  

  Clive Granger
  • Wonder

• Obviously, the goal is to maximize my own potential, whatever that may be. That's all I focus on.

  

  Torrey Smith
  • May
  • Focus
  • Goal

• The better the acting is, the less visible the director and the less visible the actor.

  

  Marianne Elliott

• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • World
  • America

• Honestly my style sense, I guess, started in high school when I was a volleyball player. That was just what I wore: leggings every single day with my sports bra so I didn't have to change into it in the girls' gym locker room and that's kind of how it started.

  

  Gigi Hadid
  • School
  • Player
  • Sports

• We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

  

  Christopher Bollen
  • Lost
  • Artist
  • Generations

• Thrumpton Hall can be thought of as a venerable old lady, ageing gracefully. But I didn't always feel this way. Children want more than anything to be very conventional and very normal, so it was excruciating and, at times, very upsetting to grow up in a house like this.

  

  Miranda Seymour
  • Children
  • House
  • Conventional