Lisa Jewell Quotes
I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
Quotes to Explore
-
If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.
-
I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
-
Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
-
What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
-
We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
-
I love curves; I'm all about curves. I don't have many, which is really sad, but I think the more the better.
-
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
-
I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
-
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
-
I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
-
In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
-
What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
-
I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
-
I choose to focus on the positive.
-
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
-
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
-
We happen to be the vanguard of that revolutionary struggle because we are the most dispossessed.
-
I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
-
The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.
-
Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.
-
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
-
When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
-
I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.
-
I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
