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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How many lives are frittered away, age after age, in endless coming and going. Find out who you are!
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My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.
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It's been 13 years since I've felt this good. This is my cathedral for the NFL.
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The only film I've enjoyed starring a wrestler was Mickey Rourke in 'The Wrestler.'
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So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.
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You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
