Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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I studied in a medical college and qualified myself as a medical graduate.
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I appreciate when people enjoy my work, but I don't like being recognized in public.
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I love cars, but I love bikes more.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
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I am an independent, educated woman, I make my own money, take care of my mom, and I am single, so I can do whatever I want, taking no one's permission, and that is the best part.
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The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it's fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter.
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My life has been a series of emergencies.
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I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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It's important not to take all this fashion stuff too seriously, and I kind of love the idea of cheesiness.
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I'm always thinking about time. That's one of themes I return to in my work, the way the past bears on the present, the way that time is not linear, and how that expresses itself in people's everyday lives.
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Everyone had a hand in tonight's win and hopefully it will get us going a little bit.
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This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it.
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'Wolf of Wall Street' opened up a lot of doors for me. It was such a massive opportunity, which provided me with only more opportunities.
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You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
