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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'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.
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If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
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Somehow I find it easier to inhabit characters if they are a little bit pathetic. I do seem to have an affinity with pathetic people.
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I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.
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And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.
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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.
