Lisa Jewell Quotes
If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I think all of us are thankful every day we get to put this uniform on, and we play this game. So try not to take any days for granted. Every time you take the field, give a hundred percent and leave it all out there.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in the actual experience gained by generation after generation of English colonists in managing their own political affairs. The Revolution did not make a breach in the continuity of their institutional life.
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The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
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Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense.
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There's no way that I could be the president. You can't have a pacifist in the White House... I'm an actor. This is what I do for a living.
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If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.
