Joanna Lumley Quotes
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I guess I crave stability.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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You were born as the one you are.
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Move your lymph system. Lymph is like a sewage system that carries all of the toxins out of your body.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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The loving parts of your personality have no trouble loving. That is all they do. You experience the loving parts of as gratitude, appreciation, caring, patience, contentment and awe of life.
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In the studio, we adhere to a strict colour code. Developed over decades, the colour code consists of a finite and precise colour palate... The whole world as we experience it comes to us through the mystic realm of colour.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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That's one of the good things about being recognisable - if you need a quick escape, the cabbies will take care of you.
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I'm trying to show I'm a trained actress - I can transform myself into different characters. I'm not just an ingenue.
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If the Gurkhas can't live in Britain, then I don't want to, either.
