Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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I was just finishing up 'Spotlight' in Toronto - I finished it on a Tuesday and started 'True Detective' on a Friday. So I was missing rehearsals, unfortunately, which I hate and why I never like to work back-to-back.
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India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.
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There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.
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Life's too short not to have fun with what you wear.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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The Russians often took advantage of Lend-Lease.
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I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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I can remember 1987 when I had my first amateur fight in Michigan, weighing 64lb. I was 10 years old. I was the youngest and smallest guy on my team. I can remember what I ate. There was this restaurant called Ponderosa, and my dad made me eat a steak. I was happy. It was a first round knockout. I slept with my trophy for two weeks.
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For decades, we resisted violence - until Sharpeville.
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If you can find a way that your principles are actually the strategically smartest thing to do, you've kind of figured it out.
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Remember, the Congress doesn't get as many opportunities to make an impression with the public.
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I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
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There's backlash about everything I do.
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It's better to take over and build upon an existing business than to start a new one.
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The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.
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If you wait for inspiration to write you're not a writer, you're a waiter.
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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I want to make clear that the SPD has to begin to understand that they did not win the election, they lost the vote.
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The music's job is to get the audience so involved that they forget how the movie turns out.
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He smiled.
