Lisa Jewell Quotes
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Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.
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People are everything in education, just as in the corporate world.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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The nature of an ensemble means when you're a supporting character and not the lead character, you get little tidbits here and there, but you're usually there to provide bits of comic relief and little bits of action or something.
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You don't need to follow trends to be stylish.
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I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.
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I'm inspired by different cultures around the world and love to incorporate these facets into my collection.
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I'm trying to talk about challenging subjects people might not like and trying to find relief as we discuss it.
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!
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A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.
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It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're writers who perform their own material. It's more interesting. And they're sexy because they risk more. Stand-up comedians risk more than anyone.
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They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.
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I always had an eye toward the stage for the story of Hamilton's life, but I began with the idea of a concept album, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Evita' and 'Jesus Christ Superstar' were albums before they were musicals.
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Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
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I think it's really important to have inter-generational relationships right; some level of communication between us silver-backed gorillas, who have been looking at and working on these problems for years, and the next generation of problem-solvers. And it's happening. So it's a very exciting time because of it. And a lot of the young people I'm working with, it's very exciting. Their enthusiasm, the revolutionary nature of what they're doing, what they're being driven by.
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I respect passionate views.
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Sometimes you need to be shaken out of a situation.
