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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The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers.
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I grew up on two wheels in the dirt.
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Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.
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She is absolutely inadmissible into society. Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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'I've got children', 'I've got wealth.' This is the way a fool brings suffering on himself. He does not even own himself, so how can he have children or wealth?
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I'm aware of my body.
