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'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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Ah yes, the paradox of publicity is that even as we do it, we know it's killing off the chance of another reader happening across our book in the ideal state of innocence.
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My secret with kale is to add lots of sweet or sharp flavours to offset some of that grassy intensity.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.
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I'm aware of my body.
