Lisa Jewell Quotes
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A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.
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I don't think I'm as educated as Whoopi, so I'm lifting myself to her level. But you know, our view of the world, our view of what we can do, our sense of what it means to be here, are similar.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, pullin' up the laptop and watching. Can't watch it in front of the teammates, or else I'll get made fun of.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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I love the way girls in London dress; it's so different to the American 'blow-dry and immaculate grooming' thing.
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Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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I thought it was a really good contrast to have a really sweet, sincere, church girl sitting next to the church lady who seemed kind of, you know, over the top.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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Peace is our natural state of being.
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I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.
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There's only one good test of pornography. Get twelve normal men to read the book, and then ask them, ''Did you get an erection?'' If the answer is ''Yes'' from a majority of the twelve, then the book is pornographic.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.
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I don't think my first book was chick lit.
