Lisa Jewell Quotes
I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
Quotes to Explore
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It's better to do a film that works.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
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I love playing odd roles.
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It's weird: for someone who mostly really exists online, I'm actually not very interested in the Internet at all.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
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Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression.
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I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.
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Exposure to the arts and culture is enormously valuable.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.
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People always say that Californian women are obsessed with their appearance but I think you've got to take good care of yourself, for yourself.
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I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
