Joanna Lumley Quotes

To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.

Joanna Lumley

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I used to play rugby, polo, tennis, and cricket in school. It was only in the 1990s, when I used to live just opposite Harrods in London, that I started putting on weight. I used to have my breakfast there every day.

Adnan Sami

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As they say, anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation.

Jerry Lawler

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It's important to be able to have representation for black queer women, because I feel like there's not much representation for them in the mainstream.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

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That was something that shaped my thinking regarding Estonia: the idea that we should be getting our young people to work with computers.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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The U.S. museums weren't looking at my paintings at all - they hated them, irredeemably. People metaphorically threw up when they saw my work! They thought I was enlarging comics, or just copying them.

Roy Lichtenstein

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Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.

Martin O'Malley

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Of course we had the best possible classical education, which gave us a very strong foundation and tradition. But we also learned a lot by collaborating with different pop/rock artists and especially by recording and working in the studio.

Luka Sulic

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When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.

Lucy Punch

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If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me.

Jayson Williams

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If I were to ask you who the first million-pound show winner was on British TV, you'd probably go for Judith Keppel. She was, indeed, the first 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' contestant to win £1 million, but the first one on TV was actually Clare Barwick, who won £1 million on Chris Evans' show 'TFI Friday.'

Jasper Carrott

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And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.

Chris Hadfield

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Every time I hear someone making ignorant comments about the supposed 'evils' of homosexuality, I think about the true evil of the high suicide rates among gay and lesbian teens.

Susan Estrich

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