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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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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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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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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I don't remember a time that I didn't know how to play the guitar.
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I'd love to stay in baseball, but I won't beg. I'd love to work with young umpires. I think I could teach them, help them develop. I can spot flaws, help them get over the hump. You're striving for perfection every game, yet you never achieve it. If baseball wants me, I'm available.
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Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.
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Here I am, trying to persuade myself that I always give the best of myself, and nature is telling me exactly the opposite: anyone truly committed to life never stops walking.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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I wanted to be one of these multidisciplinary critics who is doing music one day, TV the next, and books the next.
Colson Whitehead -
I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
