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In Ethiopia... you might find a seven-year-old expected to take 15 goats out into the fields for the whole day with only a chapati to eat and his whistle. Why are we so afraid to give our children responsibilities like this?

~Joanna Lumley

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You can't be vain as an actor. In 'Ab Fab,' we were made up as old women with bald wigs and jowly necks, and we looked fantastic.

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I'm not terribly good at three-page recipes - I tend to skip bits - or anything that involves marinating things in juniper berries.

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Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

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I'm aware of my body.

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I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

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I've never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

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I would do anything to keep looking the job. I think you make an extra effort if you're on show.

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In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

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Though I was a mother at 21, being a grandmother makes the whole thing absolutely normal and gorgeous. The relief, the joy of being a grandmother is wonderful.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Actress

Born: May 1st, 1946

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