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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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.
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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.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't 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.
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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
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If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.
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Life at best is bittersweet.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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We are not only talking about waves of refugees coming to Greece, to Italy, and elsewhere. Destabilizing the Balkans means Lebanonization, and that means destabilizing all of Europe.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.
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My career choices aren't based on the popularity of my character; I have never intended to capitalise on my fan base.
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Have you ever been anyone's?" I ask, a feathery whisper in the quiet bedroom. He lifts his head to mine, and I want him so bad I feel consumed inside, like he's already possessed my soul, and now my soul aches for him to possess my body. A powerful emotion tightens his features as he reaches out to cradle my cheek in his big hand, and there's an unexpected fierceness in his eyes, in his touch, as he cups me. "No. And you?" The calluses in his palm rasp on my skin, and I find myself tucking my cheek deeper into them. "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I." The moment is intimate.
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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)
