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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How do we turn our nation around? President Obama thinks the answer is more and more government. Government is not the answer. You are not doing anyone a favor by creating dependency, destroying individual responsibility.
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I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
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I remember being on a plane a few years ago. And me and this woman sat coldly next to each other for a cross-country trip, fighting over the arm rest the whole time. But then, about an hour before we landed, we noticed that we both had on 'Housewives,' and suddenly, we were best friends.
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Who doesn't desire his fathers death?
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I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
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I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
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You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
