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've always been interested in the office. I was a secretary a long time ago, and I've always been into paperwork. My first secretarial job was 1965 or 1966.
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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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I think it's really the job of the composer, the artist, the painter, the writer to present people with options. I'm just really reflecting the thoughts and actions around me.
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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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A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.
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'Blacks were too scared to do anything, but they came out to greet James Meredith': That would have been the story in the evening news if I hadn't gotten myself shot. I got shot, and that allowed the movement protest thing to take over then and do their thing.
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You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
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There are only a few places that I go where people recognize me anyway. I have to be at the right place, in the right city. It's not really that much of an issue.
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A lot of my life is about will - having the will to prove what my body can do.
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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.
