Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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I could never say Rza's trash. But he didn't come with the right formula on '8 Diagrams.' I think 'Cuban Linx 2' will have the Clan back where they need to be, but then it's up for the Clan to be back where they need to be, too. 'Cos it ain't just the album, you know what I mean? It's everything.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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When I looked at the skeleton of 'Damn Yankees,' I saw an indestructible story, absolutely original characters, one of the freshest, sassiest American scores of the century, and some outmoded equipment.
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I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
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Computers are hierarchical. We have a desktop and hierarchical files which have to mean everything.
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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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To nurture the sort of relationships that will truly help propel you towards accomplishing great things, you need to forget transactional networking and focus on having in-depth conversations with fewer people about subjects you really care about.
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My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.
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I'm a healthy weight for my height, and I like how I look on most days.
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I just love what I do. I'm not worried about any burnout.
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I come from a very rough background, and I'm saying that if you work hard and dedicate yourself that you can make it, too.
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I have a new show now called 'The Bridge,' where I play a guy who's a real-life guy. My character's based on the life of a guy named Craig Bromell who was a cop for 12 years and then became head of the police association, so basically the president of the union for 85,000 cops.
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Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true.
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The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about is the New Orleans that's still there - it's preserved.
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I get a great high from writing.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.
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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
