Jeanette Winterson Quotes
I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
Quotes to Explore
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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'Cold Case Files' and similar shows do bang up business, which points to a certain thirst for details in the viewership, but it seems like all the news chat shows continue to force the myth that Americans can't stand detail and have no interest in an idea that can't fit on a bumper sticker.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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I love the folk-rock of the Seventies and the pop of the Eighties.
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Time puts things in proper perspective.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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That's the funniest thing about portraying certain things on screen, sitting next to your parents and they get to see this glimpse of me kissing another guy.
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I think there is something to be said for not feeling like just because you're a model you have to be dressed up, look amazing, go to every party, and be smiling all the time.
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Our government should not be spying on the electronic communications of American citizens. Nor should our iPhones or Android devices be subject to unreasonable searches and seizures.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.
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The thing that's fun about the 'Housewives' is talking to your friends about it.
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As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job.
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There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.
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They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
