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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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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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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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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Businessmen and corporate men watch 'Hee Haw.' With that kind of audience, how can they take it off?
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I couldn't give away my husband's shoes. I could give away other things, but the shoes - I don't know what it was about the shoes, but a lot of people have mentioned to me that shoes took on more meaning than we generally think they do... their attachment to the ground, I don't know - but that did have a real resonance for me.
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I have to be at work every day at six in the morning and then cover premieres and parties that go late into the night, so a 12-hour workday is the norm.
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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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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.
