Joanna Lumley Quotes
The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
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Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
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It's filled with... baking soda. Because it really smells.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
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I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.
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It cannot be a coincidence that a European team couldn't win a World Cup held in South America.
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To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
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I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.
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This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.
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Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. “Focus on your potential instead of your limitations.
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The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccines from other nations. But the long-term solution is to get more vaccine production within the U.S.
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Men like to provide for women and their families. It's in their DNA. I'm obviously no scientist, but I bet if you could hear a Y-chromosome talk, it would say, 'I want to provide and hunt.' When the woman is the primary breadwinner, it's going against nature. I'm not saying that it's bad or wrong, I'm just saying that it can feel off.
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As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.
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The press have given me affairs I've never had and killed a few I did have. After a while, you learn.
