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'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 do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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We ought not to desire the impossible.
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I would be in Italy working on a film, longing for something simple - like, God, I would just kill to be sitting at a barbecue having a beer right now.
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From the growth of the Internet through to the mapping of the human genome and our understanding of the human brain, the more we understand, the more there seems to be for us to explore.
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The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed.
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When I'm doing the brute work, I do it early in the morning; that's the best time for me to get the stuff down on the page.
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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.
