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Joanna Lumley
English
Actress
Born:
May 1
,
1946
Good
Love
Me
People
Think
You
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It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.
Joanna Lumley
Time
You
Marriage
Quality
Little Things
Listening
Three
Important
Sit
Down
Nice
Other
Ghastly
Say
Alive
Out
Phrase
Vital
Rush
Minutes
Someone
Rather
Small
Remembering
Taking
Over
Quality Time
Still
Doing
Yelling
Than
Just
Little
Means
Shoulder
Your
Each
Nice Things
Keep
Things
Treats
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.
Joanna Lumley
Respect
Cats
Mother
Animals
Consideration
Wildlife
Spiders
Rats
Like
Dogs
Fish
Snakes
Up
Just
Taught
Grew
Mean
Us
Really
Believing
Deserving
Early
I love being a grandmother. That feeling you have for your own child - you don't ever think it will be replicated, and I did wonder if I would have to 'pretend' with my grandchildren. But my heart was taken on day one.
Joanna Lumley
Love
Day
You
Heart
Will
Feeling
Own
Think
Pretend
Would
Taken
Day One
Wonder
Child
Did
Being
Grandchildren
Grandmother
Your
Ever
You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be. Don't blame anybody else. You are entitled to free fresh air, and that's it. Do the rest yourself.
Joanna Lumley
Life
You
Blame
Yourself
Rest
Free
Entitled
Else
Air
Only
Thrilling
Make
Fresh
Fresh Air
Go
Anybody
Anybody Else
Want
Which
Who
I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.
Joanna Lumley
Me
Hate
People
Car
Laziness
Other
Fury
Out
Eat
Some
Bag
Drops
Concern
Hand
Lack
Just
Interest
Hedgehog
Litter
Might
Planet
Reason
Who
Plastic
Plastic Bag
Fills
Street
Utter
The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, they can take an unwanted item of clothing and pop it in the recycling bin in their M&S store for Oxfam.
Joanna Lumley
Time
Shopping
Recycling
Clever
Unwanted
Every
Think
Every Time
Someone
Take
Idea
Concept
Item
Goes
Oxfam
Clothing
Store
Pop
Bin
Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all around the edge of the Aegean, all over the place. It's already a secret place wherever you go, even if it's somewhere huge like Athens or Corinth. The place enchanted me.
Joanna Lumley
Me
You
Somewhere
Edge
Secret
Out
Athens
All-Around
Something
Over
Like
Know
Around
Islands
Got
Enchanted
Go
Sprinkled
Huge
Greece
Greek
Wherever
Place
Much
Even
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.
Joanna Lumley
Good
You
Old
Will
Getting Old
Older
Thinking
Bad
More
Looked
Because
Covered
Led
Getting
Being
Miles
Forward
Many
Growing
Growing Old
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
Joanna Lumley
Drive
Speeds
Lights
Like
Off
Maniac
Reasonable
Petrol
Switch
Waste
There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missing. Stealing just didn't happen. I was taught not to shoplift, not to steal, not to behave badly. We weren't even allowed to drop litter.
Joanna Lumley
Time
School
Crime
Drop
Pen
Steal
Stealing
Allowed
Badly
Missing
Were
Behave
Just
Taught
Happen
Litter
Whole
Even
Fountain
Fountain Pen
Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.
Joanna Lumley
Good
Woman
Women
People
Engineer
Men
Poet
Single
Whatever
Our
Respected
Say
People Say
Never
Simultaneously
Understand
Been
Women Are
Very
Different
Skills
Painter
Many
It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single blow from their feet.
Joanna Lumley
Lion
Single
Down
Difficult
Incredibly
Giraffe
Feet
Blow
Thing
Bring
Difficult Thing
I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew on buttons.
Joanna Lumley
Mend
Tears
Sew
Out
Dress
Piece
Make
Shirts
Cloth
Lovely
Cut
Buttons
I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
Joanna Lumley
Friendship
Women
Men
Sense
Think
Glamour
Attracted
Women Are
Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier bags; I save brown paper from parcels. I save string; I save ribbons. I separate all my bits and pieces.
Joanna Lumley
Gone
String
Paper
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Carrier
Out
Brown
Take
Bags
Over
Pieces
Bowl
Salad
Off
Again
Separate
Use
Wash
Even
Save
To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would have been Dracula's choice for a bride, through history and beyond the grave, was a thrill.
Joanna Lumley
History
Van
Would
Something
Thrill
Through
Beyond
Been
Iconic
Choice
Who
Bride
Film
Grave
Jessica
Dracula
Playing
In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?
Joanna Lumley
Day
You
Our
Out
Responsibilities
Find
Eat
Give
Only
Take
Like
His
Goats
Expected
Afraid
Children
Fields
Might
Whistle
Ethiopia
Whole
Why
As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.
Joanna Lumley
Love
Me
You
National
Brits
Our
See
Adore
Excited
Put
Almost
Celebrations
Get
Gold
Coach
Need
Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
Joanna Lumley
Buy
You
Remember
Atlas
Bed
Go
Anywhere
Keep
I quite often don't have breakfast, and I never have lunch. I find it helps not to wake my stomach up because if I had a good big breakfast, I would be ready for a snack at 11 and then a three-course lunch, then I'd be ready for tea, then a cocktail and then an enormous dinner.
Joanna Lumley
Good
Dinner
Big
Breakfast
Tea
Cocktail
Lunch
Enormous
Would
Would-Be
Find
Never
Had
Because
Ready
Snack
Wake
Up
Stomach
Quite
Often
Then
Helps
I'm aware of my body.
Joanna Lumley
Body
Aware
I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.
Joanna Lumley
Constraints
Never
Felt
Social
I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
Joanna Lumley
Great
Find
Mirrors
Hairspray
Antidote
Lipstick
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.
Joanna Lumley
Time
Mind
Think
Bending
Carrying
Gym
Never
Instead
Stuff
Going
Scrubbing
Each
Each Time
Floors
NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to the construction of spacesuits.
Joanna Lumley
Construction
Space
Skin
Giraffe
Studying
Learn
NASA
Scientists
Been
Apply
I think we could jam a bit more in our coffins than we do. I'm going to have some books, some I haven't finished or haven't read, some feathers and nice bits and pieces, the odd note. Just on the journey for the next bit.
Joanna Lumley
Journey
Feathers
Finished
Nice
Think
Our
Books
Bit
Bits
Bits And Pieces
Some
More
Could
Pieces
Read
Odd
Than
Going
Just
Jam
Note
Next
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