I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous like a cake or shoes or handbags, and she won't be a threat to men.


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JOANNA BAILLIE
The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose nobl...
JOANNA BAILLIE
A willing heart adds feather to the heel And makes the clown a winged Mercury.
JOANNA BAILLIE
Giraffes are fairytale animals, almost heraldic - as if from the land of fables. They have extremely...
JOANNA LUMLEY
You only have one go at life, which is thrilling. Only you can make yourself into who you want to be...
JOANNA LUMLEY
Everything that you do in this entertainment business, you build a fan base.
JOANNA KRUPA
They always come up to me and say, 'I want those shoes, can I have yours?'
JOANNA HAYES
Maybe Gloria Steinem can tell the difference between pornography and erotica at a single glance. I c...
JOANNA RUSS
I feel the sexiest when my fiance tells me - when I wake up in the morning and my hair is a mess and...
JOANNA KRUPA
I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.
JOANNA NEWSOM
I enjoyed 'Gossip Girl' so much. I cannot tell you how impressed I am with the cast of that ...
JOANNA GARCIA
When they come in, I grab them and I hug them and I ask them if they are thirsty. The stories are un...
JOANNA CLARK
Being a star comes with not just fame and fortune, but with awareness and responsibility.
JOANNA KRUPA
I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, t...
JOANNA LUMLEY
There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school, when a fountain pen went missin...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I've looked forward to being older because you will have that many more miles covered. We mustn&...
JOANNA LUMLEY
It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each ot...
JOANNA LUMLEY
In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the...
JOANNA LUMLEY
My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral ...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT
I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT
It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But ...
JOANNA NEWSOM
China invaded Tibet. It invaded it. So all this nonsense about them being the same country is absurd...
JOANNA LUMLEY
When I was trying to get into acting, to have been a model was about as low as you could get in the ...
JOANNA LUMLEY
I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
JOANNA LUMLEY
Our society is used to judging content by its package and label.
JOANNA KRUPA
I'm obsessed with leather jackets!
JOANNA GARCIA
I do not like bad photographs. I don't like to be badly lit. There is a fashion, particularly on...
JOANNA LUMLEY
In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a c...
JOANNA LUMLEY
Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gatheri...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT
Writing that flirts with incoherence can just as readily flounder as writing characterized by simpli...
JOANNA SCOTT
Well, yeah, I wanted to resist the urge to thicken everything up with instrumentation, because I jus...
JOANNA NEWSOM
Treasure means nothing unless it is discovered and even then the value depends entirely on who disco...
JOANNA MOJA
Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!/ And if upon its stillness fall/ The visions of a busy brain,/ ...
JOANNA BAILLIE
O! who shall lightly say that fame/ is nothing but an empty name?
JOANNA BAILLIE
He was not all a father's heart could wish;/ But oh, he was my son! my only son.
JOANNA BAILLIE
I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishm...
JOANNA BAILLIE
There is something so quiet and so industrious, something so Viking about the Scots.
JOANNA LUMLEY
I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of d...
JOANNA LUMLEY
Oh, I'm not beautiful. I can look beautiful; I can put beauty on. When I'm tired, I look blo...
JOANNA LUMLEY
The maddening thing is as actors of either sex, we get better as we get older, and so when you are 6...
JOANNA LUMLEY
Masks are wonderfully paradoxical in this way: while they may hide the physical reality, they can sh...
JOANNA SCOTT
I could never be with a married man. I just can't. I could never imagine myself being the mistre...
JOANNA KRUPA
I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
JOANNA LUMLEY
Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.
JOANNA FIELD
There are plenty of writers, past and present, from Shakespeare to Henry James to Lydia Davis, who t...
JOANNA SCOTT
I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not...
JOANNA GARCIA
How long before the parts of my body realized, independently, that something was wrong and arrived, ...
JOANNA WALSH
And it occurred to me; I was not part of the action. Oh God, I thought, I'm not an anthropologist. I...
JOANNA PEARSON
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line
JOANNA FIELD
It's strange how the worst day of your life often starts just like any other. You might even complai...
JOANNA CANNON
I started playing harp about fourteen years ago.
JOANNA NEWSOM
I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.
JOANNA NEWSOM
I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don...
JOANNA NEWSOM
I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that...
JOANNA LUMLEY