Joanna Lumley Quotes
Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.

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I like to do the splits onstage.
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My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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We are all totally committed as elite athletes. To think that pushing people around and bullying them is the best way to get results out of them is just ludicrous.
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It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and happy that now think of themselves as poor and become dissatisfied with their lives. What worries me is outsiders trying to impose their values and materialism on the Piraha.
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If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.
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My life started on the banks of the Boyne in County Meath. Navan is the name of the town; only me, Mom, Dad.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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I often work and write in coffee shops, observing the baristas and eavesdropping on interesting conversations.
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And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.
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Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? Primordial soup? The bourne from which no traveller returns? Interesting and exciting.