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I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason.


Joanna Field

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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.
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