Joanna Lumley Quotes
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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Life doesn't stop with football.
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Crankiness is a human attribute that, when people walk in the door of Xerox, they remain human. The best way to get the best out of people is to not force them to be something other than they naturally are. Now what do they have to be? They have to be respectful. You can't be ridiculously disrespectful.
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As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.
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That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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I realize how unique my path has been. And I'm thankful for that.
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I definitely went through a period when I was a teenager when every girl was 'The One' and every break-up was the 'Worst Thing That Had Ever Happened.'
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The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
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Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.
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'Canticum Sacrum' is wonderfully archaic. What Stravinsky does is extraordinary. It takes you on a journey from Gregorian chant right through to the modernism of Webern - and all in 17 minutes.
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The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
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I don't see how a socialist government can tolerate hunting on horseback. The people who do this are snobs; they're very well-to-do.
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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
