Jaime Winstone Quotes
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I've been training quite hard.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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I really hate drama. It's draining; it's mentally draining. It's a waste of time.
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Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I became so discouraged that I decided to write something that would please me alone - that became my sole criterion. And that was when I wrote 'Forgetting Elena,' the first novel I got published.
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People call him a terrorist, but you can use language to do many things and say many things about people, but John Brown was a hero.
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Laughter was the shape the darkness took around the first appearance of the light.
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You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
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I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that's what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.
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Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
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My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career.
