Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I think Twitter is the future of communications and Square will be the payment network.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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I can't think of anything I hate more than a former punk - they are the most self-righteous people in the world.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.
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I'd get a shell, they weighed about 80 pounds I think, but when I was 19 or 20 that was nothing. I'd take a shell and a bag of powder, I'd put it in the hoist and then I would send it up to the gun.
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
