Lisa Jewell Quotes
I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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If there's a strange way to do something, I would certainly like to know about it. I feel that I owe that to my public.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.
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Albania is going through a deep crisis because it lacks the rule of law, an independent judiciary, and freedom of the media. I don't think if we stop protesting the problem is solved.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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If music be the food of love, play on.
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I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.
