Jeanette Winterson Quotes
My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
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Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad's hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
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The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'
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I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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There had so lately been a large force of Spanish cavalry at the village, which had made a great impression on the minds of the young men, as to their power, consequence, which my appearance with 20 infantry was by no means calculated to remove.
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A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.
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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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Unlike uranium, plutonium was created in an American lab in 1940, but scientists soon realized that it could produce even wilder chain reactions and even bigger explosions. In fact, fearing another country would create it, too, the American government went to great lengths to keep even the existence of plutonium a secret.
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I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it.
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Woman's soul is present and lives more intensely in all parts of the body, and it is inwardly affected by that which happens to the body; whereas, with men, the body has more pronoucedly the character of an instrument which serves them in their work and which is accompanied by a certain detachment.
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Bob Hope: By the way, this is where Bing did his last show and I think they've done very nicely. They've gotten most of it out of the curtains.
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The life of the spirit may be fairly represented in diagram as a large acute-angled triangle divided horizontally into unequal parts with the narrowest segment uppermost. The lower the segment the greater it is in breadth, depth, and area.
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All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.
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Misogynist - A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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I didnt know you could steal your own life. And I didnt know that it would bring you no more benefit than about anything else you might steal.
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It is God’s omnipotence, His consuming holiness, and His right to judge that make Him worthy to be feared.
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I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.
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One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.
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Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.
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Sometimes I get intimidated by people, intellectuals, because I don't have a great education. The only thing I feel helps me compete with all these people, people with degrees from Harvard, that you're thrown in with and have to work with, is that I'm grounded.
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My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
