Jeanette Winterson Quotes
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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The weakness in traditional Scottish nationalism lay in its own inability to grasp that identity could not be the only factor in the march to independence.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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India needs to sustain its high growth rate.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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I was in the ROTC. Of course, ROTC stood for 'Running off to Canada.'
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I have to assume that everybody interprets a piece of art they're exposed to as if it's already perfect in its wholeness, without knowing any backstory.
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The scandal happened and I made the best of it. I kind of feel like in the end it was a blessing.
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For me, when you have to prepare to play God, and then walking away from that, you realize just how tough God's job is. I don't want that job.
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You might not be able to stomach it, but as long as you can mind it, your heart will be all right.
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The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests.
