Lisa Jewell Quotes
I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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Montenegro belongs to a rare number of countries that have managed to make progress on every internationally recognisable indicator.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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When Hillary was First Lady, we went to the Beijing Women's Conference. She courageously stood up and spoke out on behalf of human rights and women's rights, inspiring millions to fight for a better future.
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
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I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
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When Gordon Brown becomes prime minister, the balance sheet that reflects his economic stewardship could look very sickly indeed. He could become Labour's biggest liability, not its most marketable asset.
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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
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Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.
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The 'Tarahumara' use their legs 'as designed.' By running at a young age with minimal footwear, they naturally develop the best biomechanical use of their legs. Cushioned shoes restrict foot movements and allow for over-striding. Short strides are natural.
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We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age.
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I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the 'ought' from the 'is.' My point of view is that this is impossible; this is a farce.
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When you have things that are very important to you in life, when there are things you want to do and be - that takes work. It takes work to show up for your own story and show up for the dream and vision you have for yourself.
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I am a terrible, terrible typist. I could not have been a writer in the age of typewriters.
