Joanna Lumley Quotes
I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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If anything, the children of Paris should be giving me even more money for having the privilege of being in the same city as my incredible quality. And so should David Beckham. Call it a Zlaritable donation.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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People can't even imagine that it's possible to succeed anymore.
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I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.
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One often calms one's grief by recounting it.
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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
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I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.
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As for the exhortation with which Mr. --- closes his letter, that I will not 'go down to my husband's plantation prejudiced against what I am to find there,' I know not well how to answer it. Assuredly I am going prejudiced against slavery, for I am an Englishwoman, in whom the absence of such a prejudice would be disgraceful.
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I don't lose my temper. I used to, but I realised I would probably die of a brain hemorrhage. So I've governed myself not to mind about things. I have no road rage or anything like that. Because it's life-shortening. And also, there's no need for it; it uses up energy.
