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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Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.
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Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.
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I had to learn my faith and look after my family, and I had to make priorities. But now I've done it all and there's a little space for me to fill in the universe of music again.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
