Joanna Lumley Quotes
I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
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When you sing gospel you have a feeling there is a cure for what's wrong.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I got into science because I thought that, with inspiration and hard work, I could figure out how life works.
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Now, as a nation, we don't promise equal outcomes, but we were founded on the idea everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed. No matter who you are, what you look like, where you come from, you can make it. That's an essential promise of America. Where you start should not determine where you end up.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
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If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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I'm not an actor who appears on the stage and gives people advice on how to live or what to do and entertains them. It is not my specialty.
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If the hero join combat with night and conquer it, may shreds of it remain upon him!
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Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.
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There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.
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People say it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me how my daughter is doing. She’s only doing good if your daughter’s doing good. We’re all one family.
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I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on stage, for very 'toppy' lighting, which makes a child look 50. Ten o'clock is very good. If someone is taking a picture, you say, 'Lamps at 10 o'clock,' then everybody looks lovely.
