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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It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.
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'That makes no sense,' I said.'This is the Victorian era,' she said. 'Women didn’t have to make sense.'
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Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.
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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.
