Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.
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I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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It would be ridiculous to say I don't want to sell records, but I trust my taste.
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When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.
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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don't ask for anything, except for health.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.
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I work every morning, all morning, sometimes in the afternoons. Then sometimes I hunt in the afternoons - quail, doves, grouse up north - but just to stay alive, because writers die from their lifestyle but also from their lack of movement.
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Picasso.. ..the master.. ..being a master: 'I don't search, I find' a famous quote of Picasso, where he criticize the 'searching' artists ..the master, the mastery.. ..Producing, producing.. .He Picasso! only knows how to work, can’t do anything else. What lost souls!.. .The great risk is producing for its own sake. You must never force things. You just have to wait.
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Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.
