Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?
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The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
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Now we have new tools for exploring the deep and have to pull together a deep exploration program that takes advantage of them.
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There is no link between the terror attacks of Daesh and the dress of a woman on the beach.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
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Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.
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Love is the language all animals understand.
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But, really, grief left a hole in you, and while you healed around the hole, you never didn't have it. A piece of you was gone. You couldn't heal something that wasn't there.
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Whatever hinders us from receiving a blessing that God is willing to bestow upon us is not humility, but the mockery of it. A genuine humility will ever feel the need of the largest measures of grace, and will be perfected just in the degree in which that grace is bestowed. The truly humble man will seek to be filled with all the fullness of God, knowing that when so filled there is not the slightest place for pride or for self.
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I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness.
