Although immigration is not a race-based question, it would be extremely ignorant to ignore the fact...
JOANNA MOORE We've had our lives impaired and (will) continue to be impaired for a number of years. I just hope t...
JOANNA MOORE Feel free to touch him. I got a lot of comfort last night out of sitting here and just touching him.
JOANNA MOORE NASA space scientists have been studying giraffe skin so they can apply what they learn from it to t...
JOANNA LUMLEY Even clingfilm - if it's gone over a salad bowl, take it off, use it again. I wash out carrier b...
JOANNA LUMLEY Our bodies will be recycled one way or another, but what about our ideas and minds and characters? P...
JOANNA LUMLEY I'd been a Bond girl and in Dracula films and 'Coronation Street,' but I was always hunt...
JOANNA LUMLEY I'm boiling about the rainforests being chopped down to make disposable chopsticks. I'm boil...
JOANNA LUMLEY I'm extremely proud of being Latin; it's a big part of my life. It's not something I out...
JOANNA GARCIA But woman's grief is like a summer storm, Short as it violent is.
JOANNA BAILLIE Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.
JOANNA RUSS In this manner, I continued with Satan for ten days. His answer and blasphemy were too shocking to p...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...
JOANNA BAILLIE Think'st thou there are no serpents in the world But those who slide along the grassy sod, And...
JOANNA BAILLIE Good-morrow to thy sable beak, And glossy plumage, dark and sleek, Thy crimson moon and azure ...
JOANNA BAILLIE Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat. Just parted from the shore, And to the fisher's chorus-not...
JOANNA BAILLIE Sweet sleep be with us, one and all! And if upon its stillness fall The visions of a busy brai...
JOANNA BAILLIE An obstacle is often an unrecognized opportunity
JOANNA FIELD The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
JOANNA BAILLIE The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose ...
JOANNA BAILLIE I could never go into politics, because I'm far too impatient and I'd want to be a dictator,...
JOANNA LUMLEY A willing heart adds feather to the heel.
JOANNA BAILLIE No one is the same, and we all have different life experiences. It's not my place to judge them ...
JOANNA KRUPA A lot of us are ruled by fear during our lives - afraid we'll get burgled, afraid a dog will bit...
JOANNA LUMLEY No matter what shape or size you are, you should feel confident in your own skin. You should feel li...
JOANNA KRUPA Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There&#...
JOANNA LUMLEY I can't cut out a piece of cloth and make a lovely dress, but I can mend tears in shirts and sew...
JOANNA LUMLEY The end of all things is at hand; that Satan's kingdom will be destroyed, and Satan chained down...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
JOANNA NEWSOM As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you ...
JOANNA LUMLEY You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I ...
JOANNA LUMLEY As soon as you reach a certain age, you're thrown onto a kind of mental scrap heap.
JOANNA LUMLEY I love a cardboard coffin. Both Mummy and Daddy went off in cardboard coffins, painted - Daddy's...
JOANNA LUMLEY Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed - remember you can go anywhere.
JOANNA LUMLEY Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if y...
JOANNA LUMLEY Way back in the 1970s, I was eating a steak, and I looked down, and for the first time it suddenly l...
JOANNA LUMLEY I shall now proceed to my own experience, which hath truly convinced me, the Lord is awakened as one...
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT I was born in Washington, D.C., where my father was working for the Federal Trade Commission, and my...
JOANNA GOING The concept of Shwopping is so clever, I think. The idea is that every time someone goes shopping, t...
JOANNA LUMLEY I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some r...
JOANNA LUMLEY When you're out dancing with your friends, you think you're cool. But then you get in the ba...
JOANNA KRUPA I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves ma...
JOANNA LUMLEY Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire hi...
JOANNA TROLLOPE As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexibl...
JOANNA SCOTT Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.
JOANNA BAILLIE I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.
JOANNA KRUPA My mother early on taught us to respect all animals, and I mean all animals - not just cats and dogs...
JOANNA LUMLEY I think that's the most beautiful thing about being confident - just loving yourself, not caring...
JOANNA KRUPA I'm always looking for what there is to see that's weird and wonderful and off the beaten pa...
JOANNA GOING I find it a great antidote... lipstick and mirrors and hairspray.
JOANNA LUMLEY While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving mys...
JOANNA KRUPA I'm a curvy girl, and I'm a real girl.
JOANNA GARCIA Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in...
JOANNA LUMLEY Ah, Scotland. I am three-parts Scottish and terribly proud of it, although maybe we should divide it...
JOANNA LUMLEY I had a wonderful time making 'Dark Shadows.'
JOANNA GOING I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America....
JOANNA LUMLEY I haven't got a very sweet tooth, but I love salted things like nuts. I would have to be dragged...
JOANNA LUMLEY To be in something as iconic as a Dracula film, and to be playing Jessica van Helsing, who would hav...
JOANNA LUMLEY Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, ...
JOANNA BAILLIE The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, ...
JOANNA BAILLIE It's an incredibly difficult thing to bring a giraffe down. They can kill a lion with a single b...
JOANNA LUMLEY Sexiness has its different roles.
JOANNA KRUPA I've had my run-ins with department stores, like Harrods, which stopped selling fur coats, but I...
JOANNA LUMLEY When you do a good job, you'll feel like people are bothering you. If you have a product that's inte...
JOANNA ANGEL I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived pu...
JOANNA FIELD I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.
JOANNA FIELD Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best.
JOANNA BAILLIE The hushed winds wail with feeble moan Like infant charity.
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 I am not a fan of the cupcake image. This idea that you can distract a girl with something frivolous...
JOANNA TROLLOPE You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
JOANNA TROLLOPE 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 You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.
JOANNA TROLLOPE 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 Buy an atlas and keep it by the bed—remember you can go anywhere.
JOANNA LUMLEY I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purpos...
JOANNA FIELD It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them
JOANNA FIELD I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
JOANNA FIELD It's so important to have a great relationship with your physician. It's one of those essent...
JOANNA GARCIA Babe, I nearly shot Skid in the ass one time because a spider fell on me while I was holding a gun,�...
JOANNA WYLDE The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble ...
JOANNA BAILLIE Never buy one of anything and make two boys share it.
JOANNA MOJA If standing for my rights and what i deserve makes me a bitch then i will be glad to be a bitch
JOANNA AJ “Many women's goal is to be the center of attention, when they get fame and catch men eyes its whe...
JOANNA AJ The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because ...
JOANNA SCOTT I'm not afraid of needles.
JOANNA KRUPA I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it!
JOANNA TROLLOPE You're only as wanted as you are needed, and you're only as loved as you feel.
JOANNA MOJA Sometimes the grass really IS greener on the other side and you're happier, until you step in shit a...
JOANNA MOJA I had planned to consult with a Black colleague, but when I approached her in the hall she had a cro...
JOANNA RUSS Let me tell you what I want,' he said fiercely. 'For a start, I want you. I told you that, but perha...
JOANNA MANSELL It's an incredibly emotive issue. This is something that really upset Afghans. But it is also being ...
JOANNA NATHAN There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
JOANNA FIELD Giraffes are completely tranquil - they have no predators as adults because there's not an anima...
JOANNA LUMLEY We transported eight giraffes, and there are now nine because one gave birth to a male shortly after...
JOANNA LUMLEY I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
JOANNA SOUTHCOTT Helping others is the key duty for everyone on this earth who is remotely capable to do so.
JOANNA KRUPA Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even whe...
JOANNA BROOKS I'm really such a bumbler! Writing fiction is like arranging furniture in a dark room. I can'...
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 In the first movement, our infancy as a species, we felt no separation from the natural world around...
JOANNA MACY Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberati...
JOANNA MACY One of my best friends had a tough time getting pregnant, and her situation had me really thinking a...
JOANNA KRUPA It's nice when you happen into a vegetarian restaurant, but really, you can find veggie food eve...
JOANNA LUMLEY How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they...
JOANNA SCOTT It's not that the authors are unskilled, but we must frequently venture outside our areas of origina...
JOANNA RUSS If you are a woman and wish to become pre-eminent in a field, it's a good idea to (a) invent it and ...
JOANNA RUSS When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and ea...
JOANNA RUSS I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' le...
JOANNA RUSS What did we talk about?

I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got c...
JOANNA RUSS A pretty woman, not a bother? As far as he knew, that was the very definition of the word.
JOANNA SHUPE If you can’t find happiness in the ugliness, you’re not going to find it in the beauty, either.
JOANNA GAINES I always thought that the “thriving” would come when everything was perfect, and what I learned ...
JOANNA GAINES Don’t quit, and don’t give up. The reward is just around the corner. And in times of doubt or ti...
JOANNA GAINES It's delicious,’ he announces, chewing my sandwich. 'I would like to stay here forever and die wit...
JOANNA MAZURKIEWICZ My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when ...
JOANNA CONNORS I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or p...
JOANNA RUSS Horse: So tell me, brother. How many times you seen The Notebook? 'Cause that's information the boys...
JOANNA WYLDE Horse: Fuckin' knight in shining armor. Might wanna trade your bike in for a pretty pink unicorn to ...
JOANNA WYLDE