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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The TPP supports economic growth and job creation in America while expanding access for American goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region.
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The fact that we don't have that biologic pressure to have highly polyphasic sleep, I think, probably tells us something in terms of, truly, whether it's useful or not.
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BCBG is something you can wear every day.
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Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these.
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I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
