Joanna Lumley Quotes

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• I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

  Joanna Lumley

  Social, Constraints, Felt

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• I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

  Joanna Lumley

  Thinking, Lips, Giraffe

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• You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

  Joanna Lumley

  Bored, Goes On, Swear

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• My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs but rats and snakes and spiders and fish and wildlife, so I really grew up believing they are just like us and just as deserving of consideration.

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  Mother, Dog, Believe

  "Joanna Lumley: Animals Are Just Like Us". Interview with Dan Mathews, www.peta.org. December 6, 2010.

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• I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

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  Bus, Being True, Feels

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• To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

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  Book, Skills, Judging

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• Learn from nature. Stuff lives and stuff dies all the time, you know. Animals and birds and flowers. Trees come and go, and we come and go. Thats it. So we should all seize life and make the most of what we have while we can.

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  Flower, Animal, Bird

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• Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

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  Another Day, Good Things, Nevertheless

  "The Women of 'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie' on Killing Kate Moss and Wooing Jon Hamm". Interview with Anna Silman, www.thecut.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I prefer not to eat food that has a face.

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  Food, Science, Faces

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• I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym.

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  Thinking, Mind, Bending

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• I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away

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  Blessed, Giving, Charity

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• Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

  Joanna Lumley

  Remembrance, Death Of A Loved One, Dying

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• I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

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  Blessing, Granddaughter, Fit

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• I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

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  Book, Cat, Good Friend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

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  Political, Freedom Of Speech, Suffering

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

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  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

  "The Women of 'Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie' on Killing Kate Moss and Wooing Jon Hamm". Interview with Anna Silman, www.thecut.com. June 30, 2016.

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• NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.

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  Space, Skins, Study

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• I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn't be led into thinking getting old is bad. Growing old is good.

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  Thinking, Growing, Miles

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• I am now an old lioness, if I see my young ones getting out of order, I've got to be able to say to them this is not how lions behave. This is not right.

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  Order, Lioness, Lions

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• The Treorchy Male Choir's version of "Myfanwy" is one of the most glorious things I've ever heard in all my long life. Love and congratulations to you all.

  Joanna Lumley

  Congratulations, Love Life, Long

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• If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more fun to give, more interactive and imaginative.

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  Fun, Thinking, Giving

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• In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

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  Bird, Tree, Kenya

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• I find it a great antidote lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.

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  Mirrors, Hairspray, Antidote

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• I dont think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

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  Men, Thinking, Glamour

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• They [granddaughters] went to Disneyland and Alice proudly told Snow White: 'My grandmother is a famous atlas!' So that's nice - they're happy that I'm an atlas!

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  Grandmother, Atlas, My Grandmother

  "Joanna Lumley on her lasting love for husband Stephen Barlow - and how she knew they should be together before they even met" by Gaby Huddart and Dennis Ellam, www.mirror.co.uk. February 16, 2018.

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