Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
Quotes to Explore
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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I love running and I will always run.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'
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What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
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I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.
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All friends are not for life, but if you have a true friend, you have a life.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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These are the things of which men think, who live: of their own selves and the dwelling place of their fathers; of their neighbors; of work and service; of rule and reason and women and children; of Beauty and Death and War.
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There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my own work, as a spokesman for science.
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Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.
