Joanna Lumley Quotes

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

Joanna Lumley

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It's very difficult to have any kind of romantic feelings for a movie where you know exactly what's going to happen in the first five minutes.

Joe Swanberg

RomanticYouFeelingsKnowKind

To those of us who remained committed mainly to the exploration of moral distinctions and ambiguities, the feminist analysis may have seemed a particularly narrow and cracked determinism.

Joan Didion

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Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Jerry Spinelli

BestWritingChanceCareStandYou

It's very difficult to make comedy work; I think it's a very underrated genre.

Andrew Scott

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My parents saw their job of parenting as their most important role in life, and I aim to aspire to that.

Andrew Lincoln

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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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I'm definitely moving more towards directing now.

Andy Serkis

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The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Amy Bloom

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I have learned that being a politician is not an easy job. My father was trying to make progress in the peace treaty with the Soviet Union. At that time, he was suffering from last-stage cancer, but he visited Moscow in the bitter cold. I learned from my father that you may have to risk your own life to make such a historic accomplishment.

Shinzo Abe

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One of poetry's great effects, through its emphasis upon feeling, association, music, and image - things we recognize and respond to even before we understand why - is to guide us toward the part of ourselves so deeply buried that it borders upon the collective.

Tracy K. Smith

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If you break your sternum or your ribs, you can still move. It's going to hurt, but if you can cope with it, you'll do it.

Tony McCoy

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The smallest deed is better than the grandest intention.

Roger Nash Baldwin

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