Jeanette Winterson Quotes
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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You always want to win.
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There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.
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As far as I could tell, I was the first person anywhere in my family tree to go to university.
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I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn't even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I'm paying my own bills. I'm about to move my mama in with me at 19. I'm on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.
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I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
