Jeanette Winterson Quotes
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.Jeanette Winterson
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
Taylor Lautner -
Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
Barton Gellman -
I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
Tanit Phoenix -
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
Gabriel Iglesias -
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
Yann Martel
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
S. E. Hinton -
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
Mara Wilson -
I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
Patrick deWitt -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
Narendra Modi
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T. S. Eliot -
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
Dan Maffei -
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk -
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino -
My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.
Olly Murs
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
Haniel Long -
I've gone the full spectrum - from gospel to blues to jazz to soul to pop - and the public has accepted what I've done through it all. I think it means I've been doing something right at the right time.
Lou Rawls -
My brother Art was a doo-wopper. He had a group that sat out on a park bench in New Orleans and sang harmonies at night, and they'd go around and win all the talent shows and get all the girls, you know.
Aaron Neville -
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton -
Obamacare, without a single Republican vote, cut $700 billion out of Medicare.
Louie Gohmert -
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Jeanette Winterson