Lisa Jewell Quotes
I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
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I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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The very first time a politician puts you in his target is sometimes a disappointment, because perhaps you thought you were friends and getting along well... But it is not something that you dwelled on. At least, I did not.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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A few years ago, when I had no work and started believing that films weren't a viable career, I thought of finding another job. I started training and riding horses and got consumed by that. It was a boon in disguise.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires.
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The sense of being a separate, egoic self begins with the astral, not with the physical, body. The soul is individualized spirit.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
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In orbit, you're keyed up and aware of everything going on, every little noise, anything that may have special meaning because of where you are.
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You can't make movies without known names, and unknowns can't become known, because they can't get work.
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Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.
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I was brought up in the same house I was born in, and I lived there until I left home as an adult. I also went to a Catholic school, which was full of Irish girls whose parents never split up, so everyone I knew had these big family set-ups.
