Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
Quotes to Explore
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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Unfortunately, too few women take the risk of running for political office or assuming positions of influence. As a result, our voices are not part of the conversation yet alone the final decision.
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Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.
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If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.
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'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically.
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I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
