Lisa Jewell Quotes

No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.

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• I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Way
  • Inspires

• The Florida peninsula is, in fact, an emerging plateau, honeycombed with voids and vents, caves and underground waterways. Travelers on Interstate Highway I-75 have no idea that, beneath them, are cave labyrinths still being mapped by speleologists - 'cavers,' they prefer to be called.

  

  Randy Wayne White
  • Idea
  • Fact
  • Florida

• How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • You
  • Energy
  • Rest

• I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

  

  Walter Wager
  • Working
  • Library
  • Will

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Life
  • Race
  • Brotherhood

• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Writing
  • Food

• It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

  

  Laura Wade
  • Same
  • Opportunities
  • Until

• You are a free woman, and then you become a prisoner, and you receive all kinds of orders. Sit here, stand there. That's it. You just, you don't have the possibility of even moving to take your bag without asking for permission.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Free
  • Moving
  • Woman

• I think every actor brings something personal to a role, right?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Think
  • Actor
  • Personal

• A lot of the songs on '2' are pretty personal, but even if I'm writing about something like that, I still tend to keep it pretty simple and open-ended. I like the idea of people listening to my album and it meaning something to me but maybe meaning something else to them.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• I always wanted to be known as a songwriter and not just a songbird.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Always
  • Just
  • Songwriter

• With 'Rachaa' I get back to action. It has very edgy action.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Action
  • Back
  • Edgy

• Having passion does not mean you have to descend into bickering and fighting.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • You
  • Passion
  • Fighting

• I don't agree with everything that any of our political leaders say or believe - that's going to happen sometimes.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Believe
  • Political

• I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom them, either in India or abroad.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Help
  • Trust
  • Cricket

• It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • God
  • True

• When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.

  

  Jacob deGrom
  • Emotion
  • More
  • Show

• If you become a viral star, that is terrific!

  

  Al Walser
  • Star

• Technically, my first paying job was I was an extra in my dad's movie 'Dan in Real Life.'

  

  Lucas Hedges
  • Life
  • Real
  • Job

• Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

  

  Benjamin Van Roy
  • People
  • Encounter
  • Predators

• No matter how sophisticated the reason, a murder is a murder, and similarly, it doesn’t matter how great the motive is, if you can’t kill, you won’t. But someone who can kill definitely will.

  

  Natsuhiko Kyogoku
  • Matter
  • Murder
  • Motive

• No man ever fell in love with me for the way I fill out a Lycra dress.

  

  Lisa Jewell