Lisa Jewell Quotes
Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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Courage is found in unlikely places.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
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I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout Muslims, so I know what it means to be judged based on your appearance and what you're wearing. But your ethnicity and your clothing do not define who you are.
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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.
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There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.
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Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
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The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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There's so many documentaries out there right now and everything's exposing wrestling.
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No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense.
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Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.
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It's an ongoing joy being a dad.
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Not a lot of people know I wrote the lyrics for the Arsenal club song, 'Good Old Arsenal'. We had a competition on ITV for it, and none of the entries were any good, so I approached their manager, Bertie Mee, and asked him if he would let me have a stab. He did, and within a few weeks they were singing it at Wembley on the way to the 1971 double.
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There is never any pressure, jealousy or competition but only a quiet calmness when they are around. You can be yourself and not worry about what they will think of you because they love you for who you are.
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Despite the large number of mergers, and the growth in the absolute size of many corporations, the dominant tendency in the American economy at the beginning of the 20th century was toward growing competition. Competition was unacceptable...it was not the existence of monopoly that caused the federal government to intervene in the economy, but the lack of it.
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Whenever I watch any kind of competition, my immediate reaction when they call out the name of the winner is to look at the loser.
