Joanna Lumley Quotes

When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the acting profession. But that wasn't sexism, it was snobbery, which I knew and took very humbly.

Joanna Lumley

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I love Chicago - absolutely love Chicago. I mean, I'd much rather go to Chicago and do a play or a musical than New York, honestly. Because just probably for reasons that are obvious to you. It's just a little bit - it's a nicer, easier city.

Megan Mullally

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The best way to tell an actor he's going to be working more and much harder is to appeal to his ego.

Robert Picardo

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I used to copy looks from fashion ads in my mother's 'Cosmopolitan' magazines and steal her eye shadows.

Jeffree Star

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We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

Ruth Benedict

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I'm not a big fan of people telling each other what to do, I'll say that.

Rupert Friend

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A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.

Jon Runyan

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My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old, and I thought it was big time.

Dolly Parton

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Prose is not so dependent on sound. The line of poetry, with the breaking of the line - to me, sound is the kind of doorway into poetry. And my sense of sound, or my ability to control it, lapsed or grew less.

Donald Hall

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I think that a lot of women experience that balance between feeling insecure about and appreciative for their bodies. I definitely have.

Christen Press

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As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I am all too aware of the real meaning of the list and of its purpose. Promoted by Turning Point USA, the list is not simply designed to expose professors who discriminate; it is designed to silence and smear.

Anthea Butler

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I'm a fan of meeting readers face to face, at reader events, where we're able to sit down and take some time to talk.

Suzanne Brockmann

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I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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