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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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just a blue stripe across the top of the paper? And then there’s that somewhat disappointing moment when the teacher tells you that the sky actually comes down in amongst all the branches. And it’s like life changes at that moment and becomes much more complicated and a little bit more boring, as it’s rather tedious to fill in the branches…
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.
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How does one gain confidence? It's just the repetitive nature of telling you how good you are. How good of a putter and chipper you are. How you've got this. You can beat the best players in the world. You've got all the talent. You just have to believe in yourself.
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I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
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I think that not being proactive is a good thing. I like life to unfold on its own.
