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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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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When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.
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The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
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With homosexuality added, it would be sparkling, unassimilable.
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He wanted to laugh. He ought to have corrected the man. “Yes,” he finally said. “I do things with stuff. How ever did you know?” “Maybe this is for the best,” Fairfield said. “You might know of a whole range of cures that I have not been able to access.
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Her eyes opened. They were like petals submerged in tiny bowls of unchanged water.
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Historical methodology, as I see it, is a product of common sense applied to circumstances.
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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.
