Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
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You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
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'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we'll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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I'm a huge fan of Kate Beckinsale. Sigourney Weaver gets me excited. Angelina Jolie... There's just so many women that do 'tough' really well.
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Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
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Heretics are the only bitter remedy against the entropy of human thought.
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All art is a confession.
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When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
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Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
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ABC had all these schlocky, bubblegum acts, and we had to come up with suitable material for them. In which we were amazingly unsuccessful.
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'One of the few benefits of the fall of civilization as we know it,' he says, 'is that there are private cellars with fine vintages everywhere one digs. It is not theft. It is archaeology.'
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Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
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I had been wanting to do a musical for a really long time. I wanted people in New York to know that I can sing.
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For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.
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To me, the level of responsibility is measured by one's ability to confront the decision-making process without any delay or distraction.
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I'm not a quitter.
