Lisa Jewell Quotes
My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
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With 'Smoke Signals,' the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I'd had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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I'm interested in human nature. That's why I chose to become an actor.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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I admire an actor that can do a lot with doing nothing really, for the most part. I like doing a lot by doing so little.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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I hope I will be a calm mother; I do yoga and I meditate, and those should help.
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Since starting up with the band again it’s kind of shaken every cobweb out of my head and got me rattled in a way—probably in a good way. I can’t relax any more. I can’t sit down and watch the television. I’m torn between the world of being a father, a homeowner and a creative artist and a rock ’n’ roll singer.
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I don't know how many people there are with a million dollars who are inclined to give it to a writers' retreat.
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The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do.
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My mother was born on February 8, 1944, in Lucknow, India. Her father, Albert, was half-Indian and half-Portuguese.
