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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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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Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
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(Roberto) Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.
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My dreams have come true. I mean, everything I wanted to happen as a kid has already happened.
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The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.
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Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office, making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am!
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He smiled.
