Lisa Jewell Quotes

It wasn't until I was 23 and got married to a guy who was really bookish that I got completely hooked on reading and writing again. He had so many paperbacks, I didn't have to buy a book for four and a half years.

Lisa Jewell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I came up playing in both punk rock bands and hip-hop bands, and I found a more universal way of reaching people, especially with music that has a message to it.

Michael Franti

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Science and the many benefits that science has produced have played a crucial part in our history and produced vast improvements to human welfare.

John Sulston

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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

Tony Snow

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Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.

Tony Abbott

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My goal is just to become a better comedian.

Ron White

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I believe my past is my strength.

Michel Martelly

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I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes.

Michael Leunig

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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.

Jean Baudrillard

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I love all genres. The only thing I get stymied by is the Family Drama. I don't necessarily know how to approach that.

Joss Whedon

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I feel drawn to experiment with ways that technology can interact with notions of intimacy, because so much of technology is done in a way that's very cold and has such an opposite effect.

Jaron Lanier

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Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

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What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

William Wilberforce

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