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Joanna Lumley Quotes

I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: english
Birth: May 1, 1946

Topics

Never Social Constraints Felt

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way.

Money Travel Lie Stand Trying Way

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

Myself Learn Enough Now Teach Years

Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.

Happiness Confused Interesting Get

In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam Hussein's pursuit of unconventional weapons - until after he invaded Kuwait.

Good Intelligence Late Missed Israel

I want my team to be the best. I want my team to be the most attractive to play in the league.

Best Team Play Want Attractive Most

How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

Ride People You Know Up Answer

It's absolutely essential that Melbourne, and Victoria, has a rail link to the airport.

Airport Melbourne Absolutely Link

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

You Greater Impulsive Only Than Fry

I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.

Susan B. Anthony

Work Women Service Value You Pay

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

Music Today Me Rock And Roll Problem

People just don't understand the art form of what we do. It's a mental and physical grind. You can't be a dolt in this industry. On the opposite end of that, you can be the smartest guy in the world and not understand what it is to have a presence on stage.

Art People World End You Grind

My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.

Speech Hidden Point Scotland Just

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