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'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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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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I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.
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I believe that a child going without an education is a crime.
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The sense of justice and injustice is not deriv'd from nature, but arises artificially… from education, and human conventions.
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Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.
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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.
