Miranda Raison Quotes

My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.

Miranda Raison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actress
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 18, 1980

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A lot of young people think it all comes to a screeching halt once you're 32. But it really doesn't.

Megan Mullally

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I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album.

Mel Torme

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The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.

John Legend

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Politics is intensely physical: your hands touch, clasp and hold, and your eyes are always reaching for contact. None of this came naturally to me. I'd always put my trust in words and let the words do the work, but in politics, the real message is physical.

Michael Ignatieff

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Inequality was written into the creation of the American Republic when our Founding Fathers denied voting rights to women.

Stephanie Coontz

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Investing in living-wage jobs and reducing the inequities between local school districts would give young people more, not less, incentive to postpone childbearing and more possibilities for independence.

Stephanie Coontz

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Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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People, despite having the common interest in our band, might not be friends before meeting at a show. It's great bringing families together.

Liv Bruce

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I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Joseph Campbell

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I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.

Des Browne

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As I have done in every election since I started voting so many years ago, I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

Colin Powell

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I've been very fortunate in my career.

Ashley Johnson

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