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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In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.
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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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My plan was to land in Red Square, but there were too many people and I thought I'd cause casualties.
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I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.
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They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time. The gap widened between the beauty, the seriousness of the work, and what it has become is beyond me. This level of marketing reduces to nothing the aesthetic and philosophical significance of this work.
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Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
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I hated historical novels with fluttering cloaks.
