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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• Baseball is just my job.

  

  Barry Bonds
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• On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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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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• We think we're saving time with microwaves, cell phones, beepers, computers and voice mail, but often these things help us create the illusion of getting somewhere - and they foster a chain of constant activity. We're really just squeezing extra activity into every minute that we gain.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
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• In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
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• I went to Florida when I was 15. That was my first time in America, so you learn about how different the regions are.

  

  Janet Montgomery
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• For most people, it is enough for the world to know that they aspire. The world does not ask what their aspirations are, trusting that those aspirations are for the best and greatest things. But with regard to the Negroes in America, there is a feeling that their aspirations in some way are not consistent with the great ideals.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.

  

  Christine Lavin
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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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