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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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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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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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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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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My mother's parents died when I was quite young, so I would like to be able to go back and know those people as an adult.
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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 broke things to get attention.
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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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I took a political stance early on, but I don't think my work is overtly political. I respond to events.
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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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The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me.
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It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought.
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I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You're always afraid it's not going to be as good as you want it to be. But, the key is overcoming fear.
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I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
