Lisa Jewell Quotes
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
Lisa Jewell
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
Rachel Johnson
I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
Ted Danson
My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
Adam Carolla
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda
Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
Rachel Kushner
The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.
Oscar Hammerstein II
If your life gets off to a rough start, just know this is helping you develop depth of personality and depth of character.
John Bytheway
What I am really worried about is that Donald Trump steps outside norms about, for example, what he does about his business. If he holds on to his business or just lets his kids run it, this opens up enormous possibilities for conflicts of interest.
E. J. Dionne
Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.
Michael Dell
For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short stories and stuffed them in drawers. I wrote on everything. I didn't do my homework so I could write.
Laura Hillenbrand
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and again The Story of Her Childhood. It was Grimmsian, Andersenesque: a classic fairy tale replete with goodies and baddies.
Lisa Jewell