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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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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Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.
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I don't really watch all that much television, I have to say, because I'm so intimidated by how many channels there are. I really cannot find my way back to anything. But I'm compulsively addicted to '24.' I love that show.
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I like movies that leave you with something to think about, to discuss, to debate, you know?
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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What struck me first on reading the Ten Hoeve-Jacobson paper was how small the consequences of the radiation release from the Fukushima reactor accident are projected to be compared to the devastation wrought by the giant earthquake and tsunami.
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I know that money speaks more loudly than need.
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In living off all the reflecting light furnished by poets, the I which dreams the reverie reveals itself not as poet but as poetizing I.
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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.
