Jeanette Winterson Quotes
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Even if it's a wonderful life, you wanna go somewhere and see the way other people reflect on the world and the lives that we're all living... I think regional theater is the life blood of our cultural lives.
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When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
