Jeanette Winterson Quotes

It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do. (p. 199)

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• President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.

  

  Faith Hill
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• I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.

  

  Kanye West
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• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

  Madchen Amick
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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• I don't have a problem with recognition... It's very, very rarely about who I am, it's always, 'I love your work.'... It's always in relation to my work, which I think is a really lucky thing to have happen as opposed to, 'Oh, you're a famous personality.'

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
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• I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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  • Feel
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• I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Life
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• I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.

  

  Taron Egerton
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  • Changed
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• Well, we don't take money from people and then show the product. It has to be a product that we like anyway, and that's true for all five of us, which is one of the really nice things about the way we make the show.

  

  Ted Allen
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• Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
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• For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
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• I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Life
  • Money
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• If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• Life at best is bittersweet.

  

  Jack Kirby
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• I never had those dreams of making the Olympics. Never.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.

  

  Sami Gayle
  • People
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• I always thought, because America is supposed to be the land of the free, nudity would be part of the norm over there, but it isn't. It's surprising.

  

  Mark Roberts
  • America
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• I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

  

  Ben Casnocha
  • Business
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• That said, be mindful, to someone who's never seen any of my work, it's just a movie with actors. So it's only those who of course know the earlier work that will see something is afoot, so to speak. But I don't want to intellectualize.

  

  Todd Solondz
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• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

  

  Jandy Nelson
  • Family
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• It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do. (p. 199)

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Wonder
  • Selfish