Lisa Jewell Quotes
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
Quotes to Explore
-
Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
-
Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
-
The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
-
When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.
-
I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
-
The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
-
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
-
Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
-
I've lived most people's dream by playing football.
-
There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
-
Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.
-
The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
-
Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with 'Arular,' people always say it's so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It's just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
-
I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
-
The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
-
Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
-
I like the lasso of truth. There is something so beautiful about the fact that people have to tell the truth when they have the lasso around them. And it's not too violent.
-
Our games are not always the best, but they are exciting, which is what people love to see.
-
The law's the law, but people are people.
-
I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
-
I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.
-
One of the things that was probably to Dad's discredit was that he was never a fund-raiser. But he didn't live in an era of TV ads.
-
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.
