Jeanette Winterson Quotes
One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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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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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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By the time I got to Bournemouth Art College, I'd been so inspired by Sam Raimi and Robert Rodriguez and their tiny, no-budget films that I decided to do a feature-length version of 'Fistful Of Fingers.'
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I would love to see the French spending money to restore Iraq.
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You can't write a screenplay if you've been doing a zero-hours contract. Which means that the people who write drama, the people who commission dramas, and the people who direct dramas all come from a small circle of society.
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The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.
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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
