Lisa Jewell Quotes
I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I'm trying to focus on my job as I see it, which is to write the next thing and to remain, to the degree that I ever was, a noticer.
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.
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The fashion industry has done itself in by neglecting the 60- to 80-year-old market. They have the time and the economic resources. They want to go shopping.
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I think as a child you know when it's time for your parents to split. You realise they love each other, but they're not in love with each other. And I think as a child it's much better for your parents to split than for them to stay and have dysfunction within the family.
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There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.
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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.
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But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.
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I am attracted to the dark side of life!
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You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What - doesn't make a difference! Doesn't make a difference. I think he did a good job.
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I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.
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You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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Art is based on very clear, mathematical principles like proportion and harmony. At the same time, physicists need to be inventive, to have ideas, to have some fantasy.
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I support Hillary Clinton for the presidency because her experience and her record demonstrate that she's qualified to hold the job.
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I have been into Odissi for over a decade now. I started around the time I was in standard X. I started dancing with Meenakshi Seshadri. My guru Pandit Ravindra Attibuthi has also taught Meenakshi and Hema Malini.
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I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.
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A lot of the time, you're supposed to play to the top of your intelligence, as truthful as possible. But when you're on stage making people laugh, you're still acting. I think it helped me a bunch to go on stage two or three times a week.
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The thing that I always try and say to young people starting out is your peer group is really the most important influence on your life because you are going to rise and fall together.
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Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.
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I knew I wasn't the sort of person who could do a full-time job and write in the evening and at weekends.
