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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On being shown a relic said to be a bone of St. Elizabeth, he (Sigismund) turned it over and remarked that it could just as well be that of a dead cobbler.
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When you are happy and playing regular football, that can make life a lot easier.
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I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
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I did the figure of Diana in V, a cult TV show seen all over the world.
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The little smiling cottage! where at eve He meets his rosy children at the door, Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife, With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent To cheer his hunger after labor hard.
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I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
