Joanna Lumley Quotes
I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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I think when you've got a passion for something, it comes out of you, and people can feel it. Then your mind is so geared towards that and how you can improve on it, and you're so excited about performing that it comes together.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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I vividly remember Charles Bronson's face in 'Chino.' The western genre is screaming for a face like that.
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If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something.
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We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of positive human experiences that are not available in that culture. And we're right to want those experiences.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.
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The Pre-Raphaelites, while very bothered by what the establishment thought of them, also utterly rebelled against it. In everything - social, sexual, emotional - they were out on a limb, pushing the boundaries.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.
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Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ, by commanding his followers to lay down their own lives.
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The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
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To be fair, that MTV was very cooperative with the film "Josie and the Pussycats", and this MTV has been very cooperative. I actually didn't even think about it until you said it.
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If you don't think God's love for the unlovable is amazing, go try to love someone who hates you for a day. See if that helps.
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Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.
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Trying to coordinate everything, it can be really hard to balance.
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I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but I like going in when they are empty and quiet, and just sitting there and thinking for a little while.
