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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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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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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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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Misogynist - A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Yes, Lord, you are innocence itself: how could you conceive of Nothingness, you who are plenitude? Your gaze is light and transforms all into light: how could you know the half-light in my heart?
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Tightness gets in the way of everything, except tightness.
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The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to thing when you have outlived the first interest and not yet the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
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I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
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I remember that poster of Led Zeppelin with the plane. I had it on my wall when I was a kid. I thought that was the coolest. It amazes me that it came true.
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I didn't study science beyond high school level, but I'd been reading a lot of science books by people like Richard Dawkins, Matt Ridley and Daniel Dennett. I also spent a year working on a fellowship in a research centre - the Allan Wilson Centre - where I got a hands-on look at their work sequencing DNA.
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I don't like it when reviews aren't about the movie. When they're about how much money somebody made, or who they're sleeping with, or if they got the job via some connection, or about how Fox is putting X amount of dollars into it.
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Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
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I started doing stand-up when I was 16, my junior year in high school. My two friends and I would sit at home watching stand-up. They kept saying I should try it, and so I did.
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We are a nation of laws, and we should live by the rule of law. And sometimes we should have a little bit of common sense.
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I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.
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I was actually late to the punk movement because I was too young.
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El ir derecho acorta las distancias, y también la vida.
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My characters are always on the outside; the spotlight's not on them. But they do get somewhere.
