Joanna Lumley Quotes
If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.
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But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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The mind is just another muscle.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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I like to have the impression that whatever is happening is true.
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Our songs all carry the same way.
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I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.
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Arizona is really cool but I couldn't stay there for too long.
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When I'm writing fiction, I'm sort of interested by the fact that somehow or other I can have the feeling of actually seeing things through someone else's eyes.
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If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.
