Lisa Jewell Quotes

Don't do a hard sell or try to tell the agent that you're going to be a bestseller or the next John Grisham. This goes down very badly. If your work is good, then they are skilled enough to know this within a few pages.

Lisa Jewell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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The emergence of open Internet protocols for value exchange, today led by the global adoption of Bitcoin's blockchain, paves the way for value to move as freely as information and data move on the Internet today.

Jeremy Allaire

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We don't teach kids how to feel, we don't give them the words to go by.

John Denver

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Across our great nation, we've begun to see an acceleration of the power of data to deliver value.

Megan Smith

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No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Tom Scholz

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The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

Tom Stoppard

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'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree in tow before nasties from another world destroy them and everything else in their path. Yes, it's a point-and-click adventure game, but behind every click, there's a bit of joy to be found. Bugs sing. Bees dance.

Rob Manuel

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Everybody wants to be loved by everybody, and they'll do everything they can to be loved, including not be who they really are, from person to person.

Rush Limbaugh

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If I ideally can, I'd do a comedy, and then I would do something where I'm a mental patient, and then I'd go back and do a comedy so I can continue to express myself in different ways.

Mircea Monroe

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I'm okay with the path that I'm on, but it's fascinating to think, 'I could've been a gay guy in Key West. I could be working at an insurance company in Lansing. But somehow, this is what's happening.'

Josh Malerman

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I came from the theatre, which had given me opportunities in television as well as a film adaptation of my second play 'Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got The Will?' for MGM.

Del Shores

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With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

Conor Oberst

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No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

Bruce Forsyth

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