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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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.
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I'd like to see someone try to make Cush Jumbo up. It's my real name.
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I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people belonging to my class think they're better than other people. You're damn right we're better. We're better because we do not shirk our obligations either to ourselves or to others. . . .we live by our lights, we die by our lights, and whoever the high gods may be, we'll look them in the eye without apology.
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I don't have a BlackBerry or whatever you call it. And there is something to be said for being isolated and out of phone range, because you can fall into a habit to such a degree that you don't even realise that you've lost something: silence.
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I admire politicians. It is a really tough assignment, and I would fall at the first fence.
