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've found lyrics in songs that always center me.
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing.
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I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.
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I'm aware of my body.
