Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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The political world is a dark place. If you want to portray it accurately, authentically, you've got to turn out the lights from time to time.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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I remember we would get young, aspiring actors to come on '77 Sunset Strip' - I remember George Kennedy was one of those - and they would do a big guest star part, a lead, and they'd be paid maybe $850.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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I've shot a lot of pilots that have never seen the light of day, jobs that have fallen apart or gotten canceled, so I'm really weary about what contracts I sign and where I swear my loyalty to.
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I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women, who were born when the country hoped for a male heir, made their way as leaders.
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The gospel needs to be preached all over the world. You cannot light a candle and put it under a roof.
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I remember when I wanted every pitch to be a strike.
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I remember my first acting class: I was like, 'That's it.' If I know that I want to do something then I'm going to do it and there's no stopping me, whether it's if I want to take a movie part or don't, or eat sushi for lunch or don't. There's always a very clear goal. Once I figure out what I want that's it.
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I think anyone who behaves boorishly but without a good sense of humor is not as fun to watch.
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Our American heritage is greater than any one of us. It can express itself in very homely truths; in the end it can lift up our eyes beyond the glow in the sunset skies.
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Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.
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Your look changes depending on your confidence, and then your beauty changes. When I first came to New York, all the people were saying, 'You look so Asian because you have a different eye shape.' They didn't really understand because they didn't really see that many Asian models.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
