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Lisa Jewell Quotes

Every brilliant book I read is an influence and an inspiration. As is every brilliant movie I watch and every brilliant box set.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Influence Book Brilliant Inspiration

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

Good Book Think Thinking American

My mother wanted me to be a doctor.

Mother Me Doctor Wanted

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

Life Legs Need Lead Disease Full

Truly, what the Secret Service did for us is that they saved my dad's life twice.

Life Service Secret Twice Us Did

I'm from a fancy, well-raised background. We were very well-behaved and not allowed to swear. It's the kind of place where people hide their problems under the rug and pretend it's all perfect. Eventually, you get sick of that.

People Sick Problems You Hide Place

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

Hero Hate People Me Feel Sometimes

I have daughters who are writers and actors but no musicians.

Musicians Who Daughters Writers

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Responsibility Baby End No Sense

I am now certain that we have no alternative but to reduce urgently the levels of carbon that we are still pumping into the atmosphere as though tomorrow simply didn't matter. If we don't act collectively and individually, our children and their children will reap a whirlwind which will obliterate their civilisation.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Children I Am Tomorrow Now Matter

Towards the end with Pantera - although I was never unhappy with the music we were making - it became one-dimensional, and we wanted to open things back up.

Dimebag Darrell

Music End Unhappy Back Never Open

For a while there, our writing got really edgy... I've always written about experiences, so when your life gets a bit crazy, you start to write songs that are a bit edgy.

Dolores O'Riordan

Life Crazy Writing Start You Edgy

My brother and I laughed a lot as kids. We came up in the middle of the Depression, and neither one of us knew we were poor. We had nothing, but we didn't know it.

Depression Brother Know Nothing Poor

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