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Joanna Lumley Quotes

We've forgotten to respect clothes and consider who made them and where the material came from. We've been encouraged to buy things and, if we don't like them, bin them. When I grew up, we'd repair things or alter them.

Joanna Lumley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Respect Clothes Repair Up Buy Where

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

Jesse Ball

Funny Time Beginning End Edge Kind

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

John Lyly

Fire Wind Measure Reason Fancy Give

I've always kept my word, and my clients have always kept their word.

Robert Shapiro

Clients Always Word Kept

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

John Henry Newman

Find Done Nothing Fault Well Would

I took a musician friend of mine to a Rolling Stone concert once, and all he did was cringe. I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'Keith Richards' guitar is out of tune.' But 'Tumbling Dice' still sounded great to me.

Robert Hilburn

Friend Great Me Guitar Stone Wrong

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

Stark Sands

School I Am Me Growing Up Growing

I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'

Sofia Boutella

Thought Find Make Just Wanted Liked

When I'm on Twitter, we just talk to people. I call all my Twitter followers my 'Twitter babies.'

Rozonda Thomas

People Talk Followers Call Just

Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable.

Miranda Otto

Woman You Young Sometimes More

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

Moby

Good Home Me Book You Find

There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

Jay McInerney

Deep Country Dig Like Writer Very

I started acting professionally when I was about 17. I worked immediately, but a year into it, I did an independent film in Canada, and that started it all. It was proof that maybe I could do this as a career.

Jordan Gavaris

Year Career Acting Canada Started