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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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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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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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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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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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.
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I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
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The home studio has taken a bite. People are choosing cheapness over quality. They just don't want to spend the money.
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I taught high school students Spanish.
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I see a really good tag on a building, a man passed out in the middle of the street, a couple hugging, a cop arresting a panhandler. I'm interested in how all these things are happening in one block.
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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.
