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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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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I think Steve Jobs is my idol.
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Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.'
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I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
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Years ago, I was performing, and people kept calling out for 'Puppy Love' and I just didn't want to. Then I thought I'd have some fun, so we did this insane heavy metal version of it. The applause was polite.
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He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.
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He smiled.
