Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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A lot of companies make diversity a part of the performance goals against which an executive gets paid. Just as you have to make a certain sales number, you have to make a diversity number to get your bonus.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.
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I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.
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I found so much fun in the light shows and the multimedia shows of the hippies. That was when I was a student in the 1960s, and I was in New York, so I learned how to deal with writing, recording sound of other people, performance art - because that was a new territory, and I liked everything that was new and provocative. That interested me more than becoming anything specific.
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I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.
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'The Goonies' is classic. That's, like, the movie I bring with me if I go out of town for a long time, because it just makes me think of the best times I've seen it with my friends growing up. Dude, everybody knows that movie, everybody watches that film. Best family film ever made.
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Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
