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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• Childhood

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• TV presenting isn't the hardest job in the world, and I've done all right financially out of it.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Done
  • Job

• I've directed independent film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Film
  • Independent
  • Directed

• A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Big
  • Club
  • Straight

• The thing that reinforces my belief about that is having worked the last four years with the Safe Kids Campaign on a national basis. I am so amazed at what these little kids do in keeping their parents alerted to what they are there for.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Safe Kids Campaign

• I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.

  

  J. Cole
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Underdog

• I believe in the old, because it shows us where we come from - where our souls have risen from. And I believe in the new, because it gives us the opportunity to create who we are becoming.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Believe
  • Opportunity
  • Old

• I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Up
  • World
  • Career

• There are lots of concerns facing English football but for me the major one is the way in which football clubs are run by owners, whether they are growing organically and sustainably and how that is being policed by the football authorities.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Way
  • Football
  • Concerns

• Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Doors

• I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.

  

  Adam Beach
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Spirit

• 'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Country
  • Love
  • Character

• Every time I touch the ball, I think I'm going to go all the way. I think I'm going to score a touchdown. I'm the runner I am because I think that I'm going to go all the way every single time I touch the ball.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Way
  • Ball
  • Runner

• If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Why
  • Truth
  • Trouble

• 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
  • Actor
  • Scared
  • Vacation

• 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
  • Work
  • Education
  • Food

• Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Long
  • Love
  • For Her

• 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
  • Truth
  • History
  • Story

• The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
  • People
  • Want
  • See

• Everyone is now praying at the altar of every last dollar of profits to please shareholders. If you invest in your people and treat them well, it's a different way to increase profits.

  

  Chieh Huang
  • People
  • Different

• I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Wish
  • Confidence
  • Gay

• My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Mother
  • Taken
  • Cute

• Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Children

• Does your chewing gum lose its flavor on the bedposts overnight. If your mother said don't chew it, do you swallow it in spite?

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Mother
  • Overnight
  • Gum

• 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
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Childhood