Lisa Jewell Quotes
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
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The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us.
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I did a crazy version of 'Romeo and Juliet' once, and I played Romeo.
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I was now resolved to do everything in my power to defeat the system.
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Most simply but profoundly, I chose to live an honest life, which I think as a gay person is not a given.
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I have always been drawn to fashion from an aesthetic and consumer standpoint. I honestly never thought that I could take my business training and apply it here. I worked in retail and was into fashion. It was something I liked, and people trusted my opinion.
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Adde quod ingenuas didicisse fideliter artesemollit mores nec sinit esse feros.
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The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.
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It seems to me that I may be living too long. Indeed: my nearest relations have all died, and so have some of my best friends, and even some of my best pupils. However, I do not have a reason to complain. I am grateful and happy to be alive, and still be able to continue with my work, if only just. My work seems to me more important than ever.
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I may be a gadget freak, but let me tell you clearly, I'm not on Twitter.
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The only thing I can be sure of at any given time is what I am thinking myself. I have no idea what the others are thinking. Do they think space is big and dangerous? I do. What do they believe in? I think nobody ought to be alone. That one should be with someone. With friends. With the person one loves. I think it is important to love. I think it's the most important thing.
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My kids are nothing like I remember black kids being when I was a kid.
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Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ.
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Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.
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Nick Hornby's a genius.
