Jeanette Winterson Quotes
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I'm not that ambitious chick. I'm not chasing a cover of a magazine or an award. I've just never been that girl. I've always been very content with whatever God blessed me with and he's already blessed me with a lot.
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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Sunseeker is well placed to take full advantage of opportunities in China, one of the world's fastest growing luxury yacht markets.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
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The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind.
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Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.
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It's a trip but it hasn't crossed over to the point where women are throwing their panties at me.
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I'm very into dark colors. I try to rock the dark against the ghost white skin as much as humanly possible.
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You should never marry a lot younger than you...never....it never works ...there is not a single case of its working..
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Estee Lauder cologne. Sam Cooke always wore it, and I started wearing it because he wore it.
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We want all the information because we do intend to get to the bottom of why some of these insurance policies have lapsed.
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In 1903 the scientists found out that the brontosaurus was a fake! They realized that the brontosaurus was really an apatosaurus with the wrong head. However, although the scientists realized their mistake, most people didn’t know about their new discovery. Many people thought that the brontosaurus still existed because museums kept using the name on their labels—and because the brontosaurus was really, really popular! So even though the scientists discovered their error, most of us didn’t know.
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The crowd is a performer. En masse, a crowd has its own personality, its own character. And there are going to be nights when the crowd delivers a great performance. And there are going to be nights when the crowd bombs.
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Naked is the best disguise.
