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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You have to find out how to become the character.
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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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Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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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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The temple of art is built in words.
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This is the moment — this is the most important moment right now. Which is: We are about contribution. That’s what our job is. It’s not about impressing people. It’s not about getting the next job. It’s about contributing something.
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I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.
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I didn't want the children to grow up and, when asked what their mother did, say, 'Oh, Mom's a gun moll in the movies.'
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Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list.
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I had relationships with men as well as women. I wasn't choosing; I didn't think I had to.
