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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Works of art often last forever, or nearly so. But exhibitions themselves, especially gallery exhibitions, are like flowers; they bloom and then they die, then exist only as memories, or pressed in magazines and books.
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Success is about persistence. You can only afford to be persistent in something you deeply enjoy.
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The first step to get people interested in history is to wonder how things could have been different.
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It turns out that the killer application for virtual reality is other human beings. Build a world that people want to inhabit, and the inhabitants will come.
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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.
