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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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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I really, genuinely don't look at my schedule too often, because when I do, I get a little overwhelmed by how much is going on.
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The idea that talent is directly proportional to your trophy cabinet is one I oppose.
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Go wild and let go. Usually the most audacious ideas are the ones that get noticed.
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If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
