Lisa Jewell Quotes
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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Our union must know no clime, boundary, or nationality… let us hold together under all climes and in every country…
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
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Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, and I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue is that they realize just that, as they trot out their excuses.
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I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
