Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.
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Writing is agony. I hate it.
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'24' is such an iconic show.
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American myths have never been colorless.
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Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.
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The White House has embarked on a mission to convince the people of our country that Social Security is in dire need of drastic change in order to save it for all workers.
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Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.
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I'm a big believer in the notion that our greatest potential lies in our darkest parts. To a certain extent it's only in facing those parts of ourselves that we can truly grow, and I think that's true of all of the characters I've played, certainly in the past few years.
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I care about how you feel when you're wearing something, because I think that if you feel confident, you look beautiful.
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I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
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People ask about art and commercialism. I think that if someone tries to sell their work at a high price, that is the wrong way of doing it.
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If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.
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I want to get off with the screenwriting.
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You don't just leave Los Angeles. Such a departure requires magical intervention. You can't simply purchase a ticket to another destination. You must disappear.
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'T.V. has made going to the theatre seem pointless, photography has pretty much killed painting but graffiti has remained gloriously unspoilt by progress.'
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I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.
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Within one of her.
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Don't let them tell us stories. Don't let them say of the man sentenced to death 'He is going to pay his debt to society,' but: 'They are going to cut off his head.' It looks like nothing. But it does make a little difference. And then there are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye.
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People who are mean or unkind or rigid - think about it - cannot laugh at themselves. If we can't laugh at ourselves and the human condition, we're going to be mean.
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These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men.
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How do Crays and Alphas handle the POSIX problem?
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Vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.
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Education : a debt due from present to future generations.
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Tell me a story, Pew.
