Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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For if you train hard and responsibly your confidence surges to a maximum.
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It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
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There's a physicality and confidence to Americans; they're very present. That's something I enjoy being around because it rubs off on you.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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My older brother, who was in the Army, now owns his own building company. My half-sister was a nurse and is now a psychotherapist.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.
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Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.
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When, you know, when you're playing basketball, you have to have confidence in your moves if they're gonna work.
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God's truth is helped by no man's ignorance.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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Unless someone has walked in your shoes, you really can't judge. Everyone needs to make the best choice for their life.
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The curse of God must have been on our people when we chose him out of so many noble sons of the South, who would have carried us safely through this Revolution.
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You have to be good , you know? You have to have your manager feel that he needs to put you in the lineup every day. That's Hall-of-Fame good. And Miggy's that good.
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A landline is an anchor - busy signals, long distance bills, missed connections and all.
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Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.
