Joanna Lumley Quotes
I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.
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I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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The only duty an artist has is in the quality of the art. There is no moral obligation to denounce. An artist confronted with a tremendous injustice sometimes feels inclined to say something. Denouncing the situation is the artist's choice.
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During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
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I did Jay Leno with Mike the Situation, and he just - he lives, like, ten minutes from me in Jersey. He's like, 'If you ever get a flat, call me. I'll come fix your tire.' That's how we do. That's neighborly, you know?
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God gave me the ability, so why not? Go out there and play for Him. Maximize the talent He gave you.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
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I'm not sure that some governors just don't want to lay off people for the sake of laying off people and being able to say they did.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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I did do a war movie, 'Windtalkers.' That was a lot of action. But once you've done one big action/war movie, you don't need to do another one.
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My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it.
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
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I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.
