Lisa Jewell Quotes

I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

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• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• Envy is an insult to oneself.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Envy
  • Insult
  • Oneself

• From the early days of the Raj, Shakespeare had been woven into the fabric of India's education, and my father understood that in a culture rich with storytelling and fantastical tales, Shakespeare's characters and storylines resonated in a powerful way.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Father
  • Culture
  • Education

• In the total expanse of human life there is not a single square inch of which the Christ, who alone is sovereign, does not declare, 'That is mine!'.

  

  Abraham Kuyper
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Single

• The difficulties of many European countries derive from their corporatism: state projects serving cronies and vast social protection programmes, both run by elites. These surged in the 1970s and 1980s.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Run
  • Protection
  • Serving

• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • People
  • Winning
  • Goal

• One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Great
  • Want
  • English

• I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• I always wanted to do something completely different.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Different
  • Always
  • Something

• When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Work
  • American
  • Political

• Basketball players aren't always the best dressers.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Best
  • Always
  • Basketball

• As an actor, I don't want to do something which I have already done before.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Want
  • Actor

• Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • America
  • End
  • Warrior

• Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Society
  • Free
  • Fear

• I'm a good eater and like to make my own meals. I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Day
  • End

• I guess there was a little bit of a slight rebellion, maybe a little bit of a renegade desire that made me realize at some point in my adolescence that I really liked pictures that told stories of things - genre paintings, historical paintings - the sort of derivatives we get in contemporary society.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Society
  • Me
  • Desire

• When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Vision
  • Audience
  • Relax

• If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • God
  • Love
  • Approach

• Undoubtedly our Heavenly Father tires of expressions of love in words only. He has made it clear through his prophets and his word that his ways are ways of commitment, and not conversation. He prefers performance over lip service. We show our true love for him in proportion to our keeping his words.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • True
  • Father
  • Words

• He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Admit
  • Affairs
  • Demonstration

• 'Fight Master' is a proving ground for young, aspiring fighters who want a chance to play on a bigger stage. That's something it has in common with 'The Ultimate Fighter,' which has always been like a farm league for the UFC, a place to develop new talent.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Chance
  • Fight
  • Talent

• I always wanted to write psychological thrillers.

  

  Lisa Jewell