Lisa Jewell Quotes
I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I want to have a long career.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.
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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.
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It's good to be playing one and a half hour again. In the States we played like an hour and when you got onstage it felt like all of a sudden you are already done your set. But now, it feels like we are touring again.
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I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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I changed my mind about being a famous pop star when I realised that it meant I'd never be able to get on the Tube again.
