Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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I boxed 15 years in a club.
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Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
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I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
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When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Music is art to me, and you don't censor art. You don't go into a museum and censor things.
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I call my therapist every other day. It's not a one-stop shop. You have to push away all that negativity in your head. Face it, name it, let it go.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good.
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
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I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.
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It felt like a new day.
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Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.
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We’re talking about something we all want very much to find. And that automatically makes Ed’s conclusions suspect.
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In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead.
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The safest place in life is in the hands of God, even when theyre punishing you.
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We're predators; we don't eat meat because it's handy, we eat meat because we have a taste for blood.
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Women are very unpredictable.
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Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.
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