Lisa Jewell Quotes
I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'
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We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
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I firmly believe caretaking the soul is incredibly important for happiness.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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In a bigger picture, all over the world is a boys' club.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Buddy Rich is one of a kind; he's a genius, and that's all there is to it.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'
