Joanna Lumley Quotes
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When I first started in Malaysia, having a Muslim Malay girl singing and holding a guitar was new to everyone. Even Muslims there had issues with it; they found it weird.
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Ultimately, the only people who are in any way edified by hanging with famous people are you at the age of 11 and your mom.
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When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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It's good to have a title that's not just one word. If you're gonna title it, you might as well try and say something.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
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I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.
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When you make a promise, keep it.
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Only in the case of immigration is the public systematically lied to from every major news outlet. The media lie about everything, but immigration constitutes their finest hour of collective lying.
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We believe that the farm should be building 'forgiveness' into the ecosystem. What does that mean? That a more forgiving ecosystem is one that can better handle drought, flood, disease, pestilence.
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I want to help create the world's first global currency built on the Internet and built on open platforms and standards such as Bitcoin, and I want to build a financial services institution on top of that. That's what I'm doing with Circle.
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It is an honour and a privilege to play music for a living, and I don't take it for granted, not even for a second.
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Ireland was, of old, called the Isle of Saints because of the great number of holy ones of both sexes who flourished there in former ages or who, coming thence, propagated the faith amongst other nations.
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...why should our self-appointed instructors assume that because we do not chatter about a thing, we have never heard of it?
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Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
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If you scratch below the glossy surface of many "enviable" marriages, often you'll find a disenchanted wife whose husband finds the landscape of her emotions as uninteresting as the moon's.
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I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
