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Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence and his enormous psychological perception.


Joanna Trollope

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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...
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