Joanna Lumley Quotes
I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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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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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.
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Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
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If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
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I might have faults but I'm not a big head.
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I'm proud of being British, but I think our aristocracy is overrated.
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I started boxing because of my brother. And then I came to admire the all-time greats, like Roberto Duran and Muhammad Ali. I'd say I admired Ali more than any fighter in my life.
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War, I have always said, forces men to change their standards, regardless of whether their country has won or lost.
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Over the past 20 years, I have noticed that the most flexible, dynamic, inquisitive minds among my students have been industrial design majors. Industrial designers are bracingly free of ideology and cant. The industrial designer is trained to be a clear-eyed observer of the commercial world - which, like it or not, is modern reality.
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I don't think literature will be purged until its philosophic pretentiousness is extruded, and I shant live to see that purge, nor perhaps when it has happened will anything survive.
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Today we are sacks of shit bundled into flying tubes with a security warning secreted inside every orifice.
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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.
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The life we’ve been leading couldn’t last forever. It’s a wonder it lasted as long as it did.
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...new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces-all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally.
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Ammu explained to Estha and Rahel that people always loved best what they Identified most with.
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I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.
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I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, 'Let's start the year off together,' and then we wound up breaking up the night after!
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I am deeply shocked by the news of this bomb, and I extend my sympathies to all who have been injured. Details of exactly what has happened and the nature of the injuries are not clear.
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We feel that Rhett deserves an opportunity to have the opportunities that Paul had and see what he can do with, ... That's the direction we're going to go and work from there.
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I cut the labels out of my clothes because they scratch. Clothes are just little workhorses, aren't they?
