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.
Yuna
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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.
Adam McKay
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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.
Dalai Lama
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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.
Fidel Castro
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
Kangana Ranaut
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
Vin Scully
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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.
Rachel McAdams
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu
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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.
Damien Hirst
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I broke things to get attention.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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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.
Rachael Ray
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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.
Kara Walker
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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.
Venus Williams
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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.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
Rachel Cusk
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Work is making a living out of being bored.
Karl Lagerfeld
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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.
Eartha Kitt
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Always do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In most professions, if you stay at the office an extra four hours every day, you're gonna impress the boss. You're gonna get that promotion; you're gonna get that raise. You're gonna at least have job security. But with acting, if you're really ambitious and you have a good work ethic and are really good at your job, it might not really matter.
Jason Bateman
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This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.
Emmet Gowin
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Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.
Steven Shainberg
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There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.
Moira Kelly
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I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
Joanna Lumley