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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We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention, disregarded also the humane aspiration.
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You're only as good as your last record and you could get dropped.
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It's very normal - when you're not used to the world of the high wire, it's very normal to be simply terrified. The reason I'm not is because I've done it for so many years.
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In the UK cycling was very popular until the end of the 1950's but it really lost out to our love affair with the car. Regaining a culture where cycling is seen as an everyday part of life requires time and effort. Of course in some British towns it never really went away - just look at Oxford and Cambridge. In other places, where the car has been king for many decades, it takes more time.
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It's so crazy to meet people you've known about since you were many feet shorter than you are now.
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Mentorship has been an excuse not to promote women.
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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.
