Lisa Jewell Quotes

I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

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• The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Life
  • Real
  • Debate

• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: 'And that's the way it is.' To me, that encapsulates the newsman's highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Way
  • Consequences
  • Statement

• And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Art
  • Myself
  • Curious

• It's funny how the smallest things I've done speak the loudest about me, but I like that.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Done
  • Funny
  • Me

• When I first started working, I was very aware of the fact that I'd been to university and studied Russian and French and not acting. So when I started working, I'd started working quite young, I felt like it was important to treat myself kind of like an apprentice and do as many different types of things as I could.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Different
  • Important
  • Myself

• It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Art
  • Light

• Enjoy every moment: you never know when things might change.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Change
  • Enjoy
  • Moment

• I'm a proud filmmaker, but everyone seems to have forgotten that. You're introduced, and someone will say, 'Arrey! Karan Johar! He does talk shows! He's judge!' And now my filmmaking has been lost, all my other accomplishments forgotten.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Lost
  • Proud
  • Judge

• When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • Mind
  • Soul
  • Path

• As soon as I started to realize that I could make a living playing professional soccer, I went to that place where I could torture myself because I knew it would make me better for the championship game.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Game
  • Myself
  • Professional

• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• She was a student of history, valued the lessons of it. The worst atrocities began with half-measures, with apologies, compromising with the wrong side, shrinking from what had to be done.

  

  C. J. Cherryh
  • History
  • Student
  • Apologies

• Because it is... far slower than Lamarckian evolution, biological evolution is always quickly outrun by cultural change.

  

  E. O. Wilson

• born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did i see to be except myself?

  

  Lucille Clifton

• I think it speaks to our basic fundamental feelings, you know. Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

  

  Johnny Cash
  • Music
  • Country
  • Death

• The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.

  

  Ray Charles
  • Up
  • Done

• There is a limit to the success of conservative populism and the exploitation of 'little guy' or 'silent majority' rhetoric, and it is very often reached because of the emaciated, corrupted personalities of the demagogues themselves.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Guy
  • Success

• There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

  

  Anais Nin
  • Life
  • Book

• July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.

  

  Jean Chatzky
  • People
  • Help
  • High

• Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Real
  • Earth
  • Journey

• I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.

  

  Melissa Manchester
  • Future
  • Jobs
  • Grateful

• I married someone I didn't love. I was too polite to say no.

  

  Lisa Jewell