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've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I built a global brand Mugler, and we did things that inspired so many people. I'm proud to have helped some amazing people express themselves in new ways. What I appreciate most in the world is to have met and befriended incredible geniuses, like David Bowie and Cyd Charisse and Celia Cruz, who was the goddess of salsa. I saw people kneeling on the streets for her. Which they did for me in Japan. That was really embarrassing.
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An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it's their path, it's what excites them, it's what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.
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The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
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I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
