Lisa Jewell Quotes
I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really couldn't. I'd rather miss out on the twist.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I'm from Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, if you say, 'I'm dangerous', you'd better be dangerous.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.
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I look more to the future. That's where my head is at.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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One of the major goals of health insurance reform is to bring down the cost.
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At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.
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I normally wear Stuart Weitzman or Kors Michael Kors.
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
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Solutions-oriented campaigning with a little passion and a little humor; I think that will go a long way. I think people are desperate for it.
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I'm kind of an animated person. I was given this really big blessing that my voice just kind of carries the emotion.
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I would never, for the sake of the story or a twist, have a character do something that they just wouldn't do. I really couldn't. I'd rather miss out on the twist.
