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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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 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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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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Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.
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Crime is out of control in Baltimore City.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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The fact that everything ever works perfectly together, anybody who tells you that is pulling your leg.
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There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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We came up with this idea of a power struggle between two people who really love each other, and 'Doll & Em' took off. Calling it by our own names was the director's idea, but hopefully people will understand that we're playing versions of ourselves.
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I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
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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.
