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Lisa Jewell Quotes

Flowers would be wasted on me. I don't like valentines. I don't need gifts. I'm a pragmatic romantic.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Romantic Flowers Me Need Wasted

I grew up as a tomboy, so I'm used to being around guys.

Jennifer Bini Taylor

Up Tomboy Used Being Around Guys

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

Robert Smith Surtees

People Virtue More Out Vice Than

I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.

John Lee Hooker

Song Got Get Just Idea Then

In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.

Stephen Graham Jones

Survival Humanity Fast Zombie Our

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

Selfish You Working Somebody Percent

Since I stayed in a colony where either one was an engineer or a scientist, everybody thought I would be a scientist. This was the expectation everybody had apart from my parents. Honestly, I, too, wanted to be a scientist. I think it was the way Dad would explain us scientific theories and concepts that made the subject more intriguing.

Parents Think Thought Way More Us

That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.

Me Doors Artist Important Happens

I don't end up writing songs in my journals, but I'm sure that my ability to write songs has been helped by how consistently and impulsively I try to get my life into words through the journals.

Life Words Writing End My Life Try

I grew up playing sports, so I think of what it would be like to be in the NBA if you were a great player when Michael Jordan was playing. You could've been a phenomenal player, but you're in the Jordan era. That's the unfortunate thing about the competitive nature of entertainment. But we know what we signed up for.

Nature Sports Great Think You Know

Service to society is the rent we pay for living on this planet.

Service Society Living Rent Pay

It's hard for two actors to be together. Take the traveling, for instance. It winds up being a long distance relationship, all the time, because one's working here and one's working there, or one's staying at home and one's off someplace else.

Home Relationship Time Together Long

I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.

Play Cry Playing Drums Cure Tried

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