Joanna Lumley Quotes
I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I don't like comedians who don't have conviction, and with stand-up, it is always best to have an angle.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
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When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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I am a writer today because I learned to love reading as a child - and mostly on account of the Oz books.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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When we blame all Muslims, all Syrians, or all members of any other group because of the actions of individuals, we fall into the trap of asserting collective guilt. We empower the narrow-minded ideology that we are trying to defeat.
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One of my favorite movies is The Little Foxes.
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In learning the art of storytelling by animation, I have discovered that language has an anatomy.
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I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.
