Lisa Jewell Quotes

I tried to write about my first marriage in a fictional version but got two pages into it and realised it was too personal. Then I came up with an old-fashioned love triangle, which became the plot for 'Ralph's Party.'

Lisa Jewell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: July 19, 1968

Topics

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For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

Joe Gebbia

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I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.

John Carpenter

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I studied English literature in the honors program, which means that you had to take courses in various centuries. You had to start with Old English, Middle English, and work your way toward the modern. I figured if I did that it would force me to read some of the things I might not read on my own.

Jeffrey Eugenides

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It will take very sophisticated marketing to achieve our aim of bringing more black people into the theater.

Alvin Ailey

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I think, as an actor, you're constantly confronted with your fear of sticking your neck out.

Mary Steenburgen

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Society is now one polished horde, formed of two mighty tries, the Bores and Bored.

Lord Byron

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I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home.

Judy Holliday

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I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.

Jon Bon Jovi

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'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' is just one of those movies that's like a page of history. You can't really go wrong. It's a prequel. It's not like number three. Which is really cool, to be the before as opposed to the after.

Diora Baird

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James Taylor is the kind of person I always thought the word 'folksinger' referred to. He writes and sings songs that are reflections of his own life, and performs in them in his own style. All of his performances are marked by an eloquent simplicity.

Jon Landau

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In our daily lives, we see ourselves often in very reductive ways. I want to explore motion, change and flux, whether we are looking in the mirror or seeing ourselves in our surroundings. The singular view of self contradicts the act of living.

Doug Aitken

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We need to take care of people that are out there busting their butts trying to make it; that's what everyone's done for me.

Cole Swindell

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