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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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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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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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'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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I don't think I am that tough, actually. Well, tough in the sense that I don't take any rubbish, and that doesn't make me very popular, frankly. I mean, because some people say something to me, and I just tell them off. I mean, why should I put up with it?
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You see something faraway & it looks beautiful & very seductive; but as you go closer you realize it's actually bugs crawling over a corpse.
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I'd like to be someone on 'Games of Thrones.'
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Life passes; work is permanent. It is all going - fleeting and withering. Youth goes. Mind decays. That which is done remains. Through ages, through eternity, what you have done for God, that, and only that, you are. Deeds never die.
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We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.
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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
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I'm aware of my body.
