Lisa Jewell Quotes

I don't really get into a writing routine until March or April, when I'll write a few hundred words a day, often in a cafe in the morning after the school run.

Lisa Jewell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MorningDayWordsSchoolWriting

I wish I could be as commanding as Meryl Streep.

Joanna Coles

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The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair.

Maya Angelou

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I would bring a $100 bill, and I would say, 'Alright, first person' - and everybody has their iPhone - and I would say, 'First person to find in the Constitution the phrase 'separation of church and state' gets this $100 bill'... And you know what - and everybody knows that, right? - that phrase isn't in the U.S. Constitution. It's nowhere.

Jeffrey C. Mateer

ConstitutionChurchYouFindPerson

Nothing's impossible, because in the word 'impossible,' it says, 'I'm possible.' Always know that no matter what, you can always do it, and don't let anybody tell you differently.

Storm Reid

ImpossibleYouKnowNothingPossible

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

Ron Paul

WarAmericanTraditionStartingUs

For decades, Robert Mugabe has thumbed his nose at the world. The long-time dictator has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist, repeatedly insulted foreign dignitaries, ignored regional and international agreements to which he was a signatory, and isolated the country from any legitimate international economic or political engagement.

Roy Bennett

WorldPoliticalCountryIronNose

The success of the few does not excuse the caste-like system that exists for many. In fact, black exceptionalism - the high-profile, highly visible examples of the black success - actually serves to justify and rationalize mass incarceration.

Michelle Alexander

SuccessBlackSystemIncarceration

But, yeah, I'd love to do something else in someone else's movie.

Jason Mewes

LoveSomeoneSomethingMovieElse

I think people will always want to go see a movie, whether it's a comedy and you want to see it and laugh with people, or whatever.

Jonathan Levine

PeopleThinkLaughComedyYouWant

I rode into the dawning world of television in 1944 on a train.

Johnny Olson

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I love working with Bob Zemeckis. I think he's amazing and wonderful to work with.

Christopher Lloyd

WorkLoveAmazingThinkWonderful

I like all kinds of music. But I would rather people stop caring about lines.

Chris Stapleton

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