Joanna Lumley Quotes
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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are.
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I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I write slowly. I actually write quickly, but I throw out so much material.
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Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.
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Sometimes I want to be on 'The Real Housewives of New York.' I want to remind them to figure out how to get along and support each other.
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Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
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And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.
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I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all; the ultimate sacrifice is willingly bearing the fullest penalty for your own actions.
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Excellent; all is well. The 'everlasting tedium' exactly countervenes the 'immediate onset of death' and I am left only with the 'canker' which, in the person of Firx, already afflicts me. One must use his wits in dealing with maledictions.
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You don't need to hire a dog therapist, you just need to wake up at 7 am and open the fucking door!
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During the Calciopoli scandal: 'A true gentleman never leaves his lady.'
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I've always wanted to win in my hometown.
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I'm a carb-y person. I love pastries and whatnot.
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Music is important.
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When I do videos, it's just myself.
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Having fun is a dismal business after you pass fifty.
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Each demand for security, whether of employment, income or social position, implied the exclusion from such benefits of those outside the particular privileged group - and would generate demands for countervailing privileges from the excluded groups. Eventually, in such a situation every will lose.
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Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour.
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
