Only Quotes by Joanna Lumley

8 Only quotes by Joanna Lumley

Lumley’s take on exclusivity shines through in a handful of witty, candid remarks. Though the set is small, it captures her characteristic humor and keen observation of what it means to be the only one.

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All the trouble you will cause by not leaving a will. All the heartache! Family feuds are going to happen anyway, so…

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I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is…

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You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't…

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I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for English blood…

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I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It…

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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only…

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We met and married when both of us knew exactly what our jobs were. He was only 32, but he'd been all…

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My great-great-great uncle - or maybe it's only two 'greats' - crossbred the first Aberdeen Angus.

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I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition or thought of what I should be doing or…

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I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

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It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.

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When you're young, you think life is forever, but it's finite. I'm 68, so even by the maddest measurements, I'm in the last bit…

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Film work is hard work. It's long days, and quite often quite dismaying locations you have to be in.

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