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Miranda Otto Quotes

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: australian
Birth: December 16, 1967

Topics

Work Mother Wife Someone Intelligent

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

Writing Learn Beast Write Over Only

So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old.

Work World Think Trying You Create

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.

Time Together People World Pause

Patience has never been my strong suit.

Michael Chiklis

Patience Strong Never Suit Been

We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.

Skitch Henderson

Business Today Creative You Say Try

I'm always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that.

Mistakes Think Making Mistakes Born

Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy of ridicule.

Age Being Different Bad Early Wrong

It is a wonderful and unexpected honor to receive the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Receiving this prize with Joseph Stiglitz and George Akerlof, whose work I have learned from and admired, makes it even more gratifying.

Work Memory Honor Unexpected More

Oddly, the military world is one of great sameness. There is an orderly quality to life on an army base, and even the children of the military are brought up with that sense of order and sameness.

Life Children Great Quality World

I've never met a player like Leo Messi.

Julen Lopetegui

Never Leo Like Player Met Messi

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

Clarence Thomas

Atlas Ayn Rand Really Tend Partial

Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching different calligraphic styles to one another, without the features of one script dominating another.

History More Matching Question Own

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