Joanna Lumley Quotes
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I don't take on big things. What I do, pretty much, is make the big things small and the small things big.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
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My dad was always interested in characters he didn't understand - he was such a great bad guy in movies. And that is really the thing that calls me to the material often: something I struggle to understand in human behaviour.
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I don't know any member of Congress who ever said, 'I'm satisfied with the communication that we have from the White House.'
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Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
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I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
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I take so much pleasure at seeing customers who are happy: happy with what they eat, but happy with their friends and sharing a great moment together, and I think that is more important in life than the endless pursuit of perfection.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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I can discern that certain things have an effect on certain other things, but I don't view those effects as good or bad. If a context and a goal is defined, I could say if it's good or bad. But overall, I don't view things as good or bad.
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Organising free and fair elections is more important than the result itself.
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I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
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An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.
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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
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I hated the idea of a high school sweetheart. Growing up, oh my God, it just made me sick. I wanted to have a range of cool boyfriends. I wanted to travel around and date these interesting men. Then it just happened. You fall in love.
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A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.
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The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true. Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free; our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.
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Either you sit on the pile of cash, or you continue to grow.
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I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odour of death Offends the September night.
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I'm aware of my body.
