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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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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Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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I have not had any plastic surgery in any shape or form. No implants. And my hair is not dyed.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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Fame comes with its own standard. A guy who twitches his lips is just another guy with a lip twitch - unless he's Humphrey Bogart.
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Topshop is the best. I don't know how I'd live without it. Most of my clothes are from there.
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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.
