Jeanette Winterson Quotes
When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
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If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.
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I don't know where I'm supposed to meet a boyfriend. It's weird.
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You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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For cats, a hound is a natural enemy. This is the order of things.
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Even if I believed there was a real Jesus, I wouldn't fall for that line of hogwash. The "Virgin" Mary should get a posthumous medal for telling the biggest goddamn lie that was ever told. Anybody who believes that will believe that the moon is made out of green cheese.
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When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
