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.
Joanna Lumley
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
Gabrielle Union
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.
Vagit Alekperov
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.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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.
Samantha Bond
Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
Edmund Phelps
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.
Edmund Wilson
Something is very, very wrong when people dont have access to drinking water, and Coke creates its market out of that scarcity.
Vandana Shiva
I would say, then, that you are faced with a future in which education is going to be number one amongst the great world industries.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.
Vijay Singh
Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith
Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.
Martha Beck
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.
Joanna Lumley
