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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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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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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There are so many ways to be and to be black at the same time, but we're finally seeing that full range expressed much more widely than before.
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People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.
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My personal life is awesome, but there's always more to strive for in my career.
