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He that will not give some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, for others' good, is a poor, frozen churl


Joanna Baillie

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JOANNA SCOTT If the rules of a language are followed, words usually make sense. But these very rules can stir the...
JOANNA SCOTT I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the ...
JOANNA TROLLOPE When I was 18, I took it for granted and was eager to move on to the bigger cities like Boston and t...
JOANNA GOING In order to survive as a race, as a planet, you must learn to share light. There is no other way.
JOANNA GAWN I used to panic and get rattled when I was young, but as I've got older, I've started litera...
JOANNA LUMLEY To have real issues to delve into, research-wise, always makes it a lot more satisfying to me. I can...
JOANNA GOING The objective is to raise the profile of the city to its residents and visitors.
JOANNA ORMESHER Here we go then," Dad says. "Motoring towards our dreams, Bridge."
"You shouldn't follow dreams...
JOANNA CAMPBELL You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs ...
JOANNA LUMLEY I have a collection of lucky pennies, and I like to carry some of them with me. So far, they seem to...
JOANNA GARCIA In petrol stations on the motorways where people have left the place looking messy, I clear up each ...
JOANNA LUMLEY I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. Whil...
JOANNA LUMLEY The very first Walnut Whales recording was recorded just a few weeks after I had started singing, ou...
JOANNA NEWSOM Typing was, as the placement agency lady had assured me, like riding a bike: my fingers remembered t...
JOANNA RAKOFF I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are comp...
JOANNA NEWSOM I think most of the world would like to be Scottish. All the Americans who come here never look for ...
JOANNA LUMLEY The voiceless and most defenseless ones are the animals, so most of my attention goes to them.
JOANNA KRUPA One pretty amazing thing we learned early on was that the more time we spent together, the better ou...
JOANNA GAINES I don't mean to be trite about abortion, but I do feel it's a woman's body, and I don...
JOANNA CASSIDY The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble
with women, too."
JOANNA RUSS There's an appetite for vigour in films. The camera loves a bit of movement. Movement is usually...
JOANNA LUMLEY As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.

But the frogs die in ...
JOANNA RUSS Cameras love pretty girls and craggy, old character men more than they can take craggy, old characte...
JOANNA LUMLEY I used to go out wearing any old rubbish, no make-up, nothing, but since mobile phones, that has all...
JOANNA LUMLEY There's no being out too late in Whileaway, or up too early, or in the wrong part of town, or unesco...
JOANNA RUSS While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort...
JOANNA SCOTT I'd describe myself as a saver, but just sometimes I can spend like a kicking horse! Ryman is th...
JOANNA LUMLEY There's a lot of weight on the shoulders of a single parent, and that's taken a lot of energ...
JOANNA CASSIDY I finally believed it was actually a beautiful thing to be unique and to be different.
JOANNA GAINES I never go to the gym - I can't be doing with it. But I run up and down the stairs, wash my feet...
JOANNA LUMLEY I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but ...
JOANNA LUMLEY I've never been interested enough to have a career trajectory. I've never had any ambition o...
JOANNA LUMLEY