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.

  

  Taylor Swift
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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.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
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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.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• Once you become an Olympic champion, you are expected to win all the time.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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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!

  

  Hannah Murray
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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.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• I made the decision to come back to New York, quit my job and move to Paris.

  

  Ed Bradley
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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.

  

  Ian Anderson
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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.

  

  Iris Apfel
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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.

  

  Abbie Cornish
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• There are also scientific problems with the concept that each of the creation days was a long period of time.

  

  Walter Lang
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• I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
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• But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny.

  

  Tea Leoni
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• I am attracted to the dark side of life!

  

  Famke Janssen
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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.

  

  Cab Calloway
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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.

  

  Ian Frazier
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• You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren't true, but you never hear about the positive.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• I get a stack of scripts, like, once a month, and most of the time, you find these placeholder girls that are there to provide a bounce for the male character. So we know he's funny because she's serious and she's mad at him. We know he's strong because she needs saving. So really, her job is to validate this personality trait of our hero or male.

  

  Amber Heard
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• If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'

  

  J. Reuben Clark
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• In Botswana in the Kalahari Desert there's a tented camp called Jack's Camp, which is like old Africa meets Ralph Lauren. The Oriental rugs, the old leather chairs - you feel like you've just jumped out of a Ralph Lauren ad.

  

  Mark Burnett
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• As actors, we are always playing other characters. It's so exhausting and time consuming to figure them out, so when you get the time to be yourself, you should take it.

  

  Alia Bhatt
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• When the world changed, people were different. Towns closed, cities were boarded up, communities abandoned, their governments collapsed. They seemed to have no qualms that were obvious to you or me about walking away from what they called a useless pile of rubbish, and never looking back.

  

  Alexis Wright
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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.

  

  Lisa Jewell
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  • Job